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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• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  

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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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• People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

  

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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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• As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.

  

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  • World
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• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

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• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty

  

  Everett Ruess
  • World
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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