Elena Ferrante Quotes

She was struggling to find, from inside the cage in which she was enclosed, a way of being all her own, that was still obscure to her.

Elena Ferrante

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• Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

  

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• Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

  

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• Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

  

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• For a long time there has been a lot of talk but not much action. I think we have to reverse that now.

  

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• The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

  

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• There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

  

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• How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?

  

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• When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

  

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• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

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• “Am I truly such a villain? Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

  

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• I feel like I'm struggling now, and nearly every musician I know feels that way - even the most successful ones. I realize that I'm very lucky, but I still feel like I could be doing so much better.

  

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• I was pretty much raised in an entirely vegetarian household. I wasn't aware that there was a whole community of vegetarians out there. There was a point where I said, "I want to understand the other side of this situation," and I ate meat for maybe three years. Then right around the time that I phased meat out and became vegetarian, I recognized that I was lactose intolerant. So again, I was completely naïve to the fact that there was a thing called veganism. After a few years, I started going to a lot of hardcore shows where everybody was straight edge and vegan. That was when I found out that there were other people that were like-minded.

  

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• You can't live in paradise—but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

  

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• She was struggling to find, from inside the cage in which she was enclosed, a way of being all her own, that was still obscure to her.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Obscure
  • Struggling
  • Cage