People change and forget to tell each other.
From Lillian Hellman
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
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