Elena Ferrante Quotes
		
	
	
		
	
	
	
		But I’ve always had a low voice, I can’t yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elena Ferrante
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zara Larsson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Middleton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fran Lebowitz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vaughn Monroe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fatou Bensouda
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hans Hofmann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Qandeel Baloch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harriet Ann Jacobs
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Camilla Lackberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nathaniel Kahn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lady Gregory
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It is natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity - in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes - an interesting side branch.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Bryson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eckhart Tolle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				F. W. de Klerk
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Warren Farrell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rene Descartes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But I’ve always had a low voice, I can’t yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elena Ferrante