Elena Ferrante Quotes
And to keep under control the anxieties of change I had, finally, taught myself to wait patiently until every emotion imploded and could come out in a tone of calm, my voice held back in my throat so that I would not make a spectacle of myself.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
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“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
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The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch the control of the House and stop the Bush agenda. The second priority I had was to provide health care for everybody. And the third was to do public financing of campaigns.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
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I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see why. Who wouldn't want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?
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And to keep under control the anxieties of change I had, finally, taught myself to wait patiently until every emotion imploded and could come out in a tone of calm, my voice held back in my throat so that I would not make a spectacle of myself.
