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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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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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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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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Those are schools that have the largest populations of (students on) free and reduced lunch (programs). So we'll probably find the students who haven't had access to this technology (at home).
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As I explained when I announced that I was turning down a potential opportunity to serve as Secretary of Education, I voted for Hillary Clinton and was sorely disappointed she didn't win.
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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.
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The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section.
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One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.
