Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Man is an imagining being.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.
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I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
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I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
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I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
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The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
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Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
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She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.
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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
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The thing is that racism is systematic, so of course it sometimes manifested itself within the clubs. But I have certainly experienced racism outside of the clubs as well.
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Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.
