Elena Ferrante Quotes
A book, an article, could make noise, but ancient warriors before the battle also made noise, and if it wasn’t accompanied by real force and immeasurable violence it was only theater.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.
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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
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I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.
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Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn … The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.
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Perché il bisogno a dispogliar gli altarira' l'uom talvolta, che sel trova avere.
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Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.
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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
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In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since.
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
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A book, an article, could make noise, but ancient warriors before the battle also made noise, and if it wasn’t accompanied by real force and immeasurable violence it was only theater.
