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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
Explore more quotes by Lorna Luft
"Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive."
"Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her."
"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."
"The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage."
"I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me."
"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic."
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