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.
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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.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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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.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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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.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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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.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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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.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music on Twitter and share my YouTube videos on Twitter. That's how I knew social media was going to be a platform to show my music. That's how I started. I started with Twitter.
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I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
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Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
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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.
