Elena Ferrante Quotes

In reality it was much simpler. For at least ten years the God of childhood, already fairly weak, had been pushed aside like an old sick person, and I felt no need for the sanctity of marriage.

Elena Ferrante

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• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

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• I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• I don't like to tell lies.

  

  Hal Ashby
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• Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

  

  Sam Harris
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• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
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• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

  

  Neil Gaiman
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• It was under Catholic Feudalism that they were first united; a union for which their incorporation into the Roman empire had prepared them, and which was finally organized by the incomparable genius of Charlemagne.

  

  Auguste Comte
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• Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
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  • Trying

• Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

  

  Kristan Higgins
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• I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

  

  Patti Smith
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• In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

  

  Li Peng
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• I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

  

  Paul Wesley
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• If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.

  

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• Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.

  

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  • Life
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• I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

  

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• If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Singing

• Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest oneHave limits to its mercy; God has none.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
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• I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

  

  Clotilde Hesme
  • Career

• In reality it was much simpler. For at least ten years the God of childhood, already fairly weak, had been pushed aside like an old sick person, and I felt no need for the sanctity of marriage.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • God
  • Reality
  • Marriage