Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter famously blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52.
Hellman was praised for sacrificing her career by refusing to answer questions by HUAC; but her denial that she had ever belonged to the Communist Party was easily disproved, and her veracity was doubted by many, including war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and literary critic Mary McCarthy.
She adapted her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a screenplay which received an Academy Award nomination in 1942.
Hellman was romantically involved with fellow writer and political activist Dashiell Hammett for thirty years until his death.
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“I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”
“I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.”
“Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.”
“Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
“It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.”
“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”
“Mengejek adalah cara yang sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk menyatakan kebenaran.”
“People change and forget to tell each other.”
“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”