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 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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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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Perché il bisogno a dispogliar gli altarira' l'uom talvolta, che sel trova avere.
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One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.
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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
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I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.
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Appearance rules the world.
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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.
