Elena Ferrante Quotes

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

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• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Know
  • Looking

• We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Free
  • Change
  • Single

• So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Woman
  • Revolution

• The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Family
  • She
  • Car

• He who represents himself has a fool for a client.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fool
  • Represents
  • Client

• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Things
  • Aim

• To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Care

• When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Men
  • Sleep
  • Spring

• Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Strange
  • Scene

• If it would sell tickets, I'd stand on my head in the middle of Times Square at noon.

  

  Charles Coburn
  • Head
  • Stand
  • Sell

• The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

  

  Bill Gates
  • U.S.
  • Treatment
  • Immigrants

• I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

  

  Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Belief

• There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Virtue
  • Circumstances
  • Vice

• The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Treatment
  • Traps
  • Biographical