Writers are interesting ...

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
 Lillian Hellman

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I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.
 African Spir
Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.
 Alexandra Robbins
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.
 Scott Speedman

Quotes from the same author

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
 Lillian Hellman
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
 Lillian Hellman
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
 Lillian Hellman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
 Lillian Hellman
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.
 Lillian Hellman