Elena Ferrante Quotes
Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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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 can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
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Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.
