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 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
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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
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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
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People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
Jimmy Buffett
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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
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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
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I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.
Johnny Gimble
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
Gaston Bachelard
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.
Susan L. Taylor
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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
Elena Ferrante
