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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For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in the midst of strain, those moments of forgetfulness when we are "teased out of thought" by a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun; lovely though so transient, the reversal of those brief moments of misery that visit us even in the midst of joy.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.
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Nowhere is it written that you can’t do it.
