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Lillian Hellman

"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

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Donna Grant

"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."

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Donna Grant

"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."

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Donna Grant

"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."

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Donna Grant

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."

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Donna Grant

"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"

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Donna Grant

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

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Donna Grant

"Never let your education interfere with your learning."

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Donna Grant

"Meg, what I'm about to do - never, ever try this on your own." I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regulartly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices."

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Donna Grant

"The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they're the ones to take it away from you."

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Donna Grant

"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"

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Lillian Hellman
"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."

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Lillian Hellman
"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."

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Lillian Hellman
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."

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Lillian Hellman
"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."

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Lillian Hellman
"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

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Lillian Hellman
"People change and forget to tell each other."

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Lillian Hellman
"God forgives those who invent what they need."

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Lillian Hellman
"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."

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Lillian Hellman
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

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Lillian Hellman
"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."

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