Elena Ferrante Quotes
Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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Pain is never permanent.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
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We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces.
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To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
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As a trader you often walk on the blade. Be careful and don't step off.
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In my judgment excellence and wealth are direct opposites.
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I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.
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Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.
