60 Quotes by Lucy Foley

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    Sometimes,’ I say, ‘I think it’s too difficult to tell the people closest to you. The ones you love.

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    And being around people – people carrying on with their lives, busy and messy, settling down, having children, getting married – just emphasizes how much my own has stalled, indefinitely. Perhaps forever.

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    But no matter what happens, life is only a series of days. You can’t control more than a single day.

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    Some people, given just the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don’t need much encouragement at all to become monsters.

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    This is the first time he has been alone for such a long period of time. Not lonely: that emotion is a familiar friend. One of the things the last few years has taught him is how lonely it is possible to be while surrounded by an entire regiment of men.

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    I think, in art, it is as noble a thing as to to try to make people happy, to help them escape, as it is to make them think. And perhaps more difficult.

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    With the candles on the table, the space becomes a luminous cocoon.

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    The Bright Young People. The press love and hate them – they celebrate them, they vilify them, and they know full well that they would not shift nearly so many papers without them.

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    Sometimes these impulses overtake me – the urge to push things a bit further... even the urge to wound. I can’t stop myself, it’s like a compulsion.

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