Elena Ferrante Quotes
When you haven’t been in the world long, it’s hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don’t even feel the need to.

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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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Why are you always on the verge of goodbye, before I'll show you how I really feel inside.
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All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
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When you haven’t been in the world long, it’s hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don’t even feel the need to.