
“In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.”
Goethe (1828).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Comment about Lillian Hellman in a televised interview (1979) on The Dick Cavett Show; this prompted a defamation suit against McCarthy which was dropped after Hellman's death: "If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on. I didn't want her to die. I wanted her to lose in court. I wanted her around for that."
“In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.”
Goethe (1828).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography Faber & Faber, London 1999.
Time to be Earnest - a Fragment of Biography
“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
Source: The Road
“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
Variant: she’s mad, but she’s magic.