Elena Ferrante Quotes

Although I felt I was changed, I had remained the disciplined person who had never avoided anything. And besides, I said to myself, what can she do to me? I'm a woman, not a child. At most she'll bring something good to eat.

Elena Ferrante

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• There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Leaving
  • Stand
  • View

• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

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• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

  

  Rand Paul
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• In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I'm easy to hate. I get it.

  

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• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

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  • Gift
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• We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Great
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• If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Need
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• What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

  

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• I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

  

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• In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

  

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  • Life
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• I started out as a Democrat.

  

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  • Started
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• There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

  

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• I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  

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  • Kids
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• Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'

  

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• History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

  

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• Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

  

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• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
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  • Listen

• Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

  

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  • Ideas
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• Although I felt I was changed, I had remained the disciplined person who had never avoided anything. And besides, I said to myself, what can she do to me? I'm a woman, not a child. At most she'll bring something good to eat.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Changed