Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.
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I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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A fig for embryo Lohengrins!I'll open all his safety pins,I'll pepper his powder, and salt his bottle,And give him readings from Aristotle.Sand for his spinach I'll gladly bring,And Tabasco sauce for his teething ring.Then perhaps he'll struggle through fire and waterTo marry somebody else's daughter.
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There is yet spirit in him, were it well directed- but, like the Greek fire, it burns whatever approaches it.
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Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
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I think perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it’s nice and hot by the fire, there’s something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.
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We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
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In one room, silently, lover looks upon lover,And thinks the air is fire.
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I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both 'The Hunger Games' and 'Catching Fire' delivered: 'Mockingjay' is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne's Collins's world and books and characters as we can put out!
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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true.
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Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm sudden outbreak of emotion of intensity and charm. (p. 59)
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Every language has its own music.
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The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.
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We are flying over a ball of fire.
