What did Lillian Hellman mean by: You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing. - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA Copy
+ A room of one’s own isn’t nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one’s own. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lillian Hellman, House, Islands, Solitude, 0 - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA
+ No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It’s like arguing about earthquakes. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lillian Hellman, Earthquakes, Equality, Rights, 0 - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA
+ It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lillian Hellman, Change, Women, 0 - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA
+ Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don’t get it. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lillian Hellman, Sorry, 0 - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA
+ as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lillian Hellman, Grows, Realizing, 0 - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA
+ Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Lillian Hellman, Excuse, Guilt, 0 - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA
+ Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lillian Hellman, Diversity, Women, 0 - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA
+ You can’t recover from what you do not understand. Feraz Zeid, September 10, 2023December 26, 2023, Lillian Hellman, 0 - Lillian Hellman Playwright · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France