Elena Ferrante Quotes

I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.

Elena Ferrante

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• My Life
• Discovered

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• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

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• I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.

  

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• Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.

  

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• So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

  

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• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

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• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

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• For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.

  

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• I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

  

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• I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.

  

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• I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.

  

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• I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

  

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• If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

  

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• I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

  

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• I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

  

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• I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.

  

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• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

  

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• I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I’ve always wanted.

  

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• I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Happy
  • My Life
  • Discovered