Elena Ferrante Quotes

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

Elena Ferrante

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• I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Ambition

• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Change

• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Bad
  • Support
  • Acting

• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fabulous
  • Dots

• A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Song

• It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Society
  • Best

• I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Smart

• They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Age
  • Attention

• People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Too Much

• Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Alone

• The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Tolerate

• But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Problem
  • Existence
  • Assistance

• Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Independent
  • Existence

• My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mind
  • Existence
  • Separate

• We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Existence
  • Tolerate