Elena Ferrante Quotes
The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.
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I'm an anti-Platonist, so I wouldn't say that stock was a stock of ideas or certainly not an ideal form, because I don't believe there is something out there, except out there. There's something in here and there's something out there, and there's mediation between the two.
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Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.
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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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I am opposed to Solidarity because I believe that it is an anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state.
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'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
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I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
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When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don't stay here, it is not simple.
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You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.
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I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss.
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I avoid processed food.
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I went into academia thinking that there'd be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.
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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.
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The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.
