Elena Ferrante Quotes
Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I love my sleep.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.
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It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.
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How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye – The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.
