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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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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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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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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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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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
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I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.
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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
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You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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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.
