Elena Ferrante Quotes
One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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I do find acting cathartic.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
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I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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I'm sick of making bloody history.
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.
