Elena Ferrante Quotes
A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.
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What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
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Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.
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I'm not in politics.
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Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.
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When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
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Of course I want the Furys, of course I want the Joshuas, but the question is, do they want me?
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We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
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There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption.
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I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
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My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
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As a couple, we mutually decided to stay away from it, and rather than spending time on Internet, we be with each other. And if I need to tell Himanshu anything, I would rather whisper it in his ears than on social media. He is, after all, just beside me.
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My friends found out that I was writing a book on Twitter. It didn't seem worth mentioning over dinner. They're all so successful themselves.
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The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
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A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.
