{"author":"Lillian Hellman","author_id":"Lillian+Hellman","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["way","saying","cynicism "],"id":14757,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["reality","respect","truth"],"id":53492,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"Nothing you write  if you hope to be any good  will ever come out as you first hoped.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["acceptance"],"id":60004,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["self","control"],"id":62235,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"God forgives those who invent what they need.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["god","need","who "],"id":71198,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times  until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":100562,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"Decisions  particularly important ones  have always made me sleepy  perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct  and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["decisions"],"id":111458,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["good","nothing","you "],"id":135496,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["word","tell","slippery "],"id":135571,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"},{"text":"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.","author":"Lillian Hellman","tags":["point-of-view","prejudice"],"id":137837,"author_id":"Lillian+Hellman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}