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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People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.
Sandra Bullock
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
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.
George Eliot
How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?
Bel Kaufman
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.
Gerrit Smith
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
Madame de Stael
“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.
Catherynne M. Valente
Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.
Wanda Landowska
That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.
Bill Clinton
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
Joseph Kanon
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