Elena Ferrante Quotes

I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

Elena Ferrante

• Love
• Beauty
• Forgetfulness
• Corporeal

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Know
  • Fashion

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Guy
  • Body
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• I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
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• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Everything
  • Canvas
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• It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Fun
  • Hanging
  • Bell

• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Always

• Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Quiet

• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Literature

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Long
  • Action

• Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Help
  • Woman

• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Poor
  • Investment
  • Data

• The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Creative

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Language
  • Students
  • Worst

• I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Love
  • Age
  • Dream

• No, I’m no patriot, nor was I ever allowed to be. And yet, the country of my childhood lives within me with a primacy that is a form of love. It lives within me despite my knowledge of our marginality, and its primitive, unpretty emotions. Is it blind and self-deceptive of me to hold on to its memory? I think it would be blind and self-deceptive not to. All it has given me is the world, but that is enough. It has fed me language, perceptions, sounds, the human kind .... no geometry of landscape, no haze in the air, will live in us as intensely as the landscapes that we saw as the fi rst, and to which we gave ourselves wholly, without reservation.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Love
  • Knowledge
  • Childhood

• Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls And darkness fall "I rubbed my temples, feeling a headache coming on."A for effort, ladies, but F for clarity. You do realise that your wierd poem things never explain anything".

  

  Kiersten White
  • Home
  • Fall
  • Effort

• I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Forgetfulness