Elena Ferrante Quotes
Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time.
Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
Samantha Harvey
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Taylor Swift
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
Edmond Halley
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Candice Bergen
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I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed.
B. R. Hayden
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He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, “But you’ve got an advantage, sweetheart. You’re already in his head. And you know how to mess with it.
Nalini Singh
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Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
Katherine McNamara
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I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.
Simon Kinberg
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Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time.
Elena Ferrante