Elena Ferrante Quotes

For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.

Elena Ferrante

• Quality
• Imagination
• Sacrifice
• Wealth
• Ruin

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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Religion
  • Human
  • Without

• I'm pagan.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Pagan

• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • Over

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Christianity

• I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Play
  • Knew
  • Villain

• If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Respect
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• Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Modern
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• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Dinner
  • Wolf
  • Shepherd

• Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Time
  • Church
  • Myself

• As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Trying
  • Question

• When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

  

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  • Life
  • Up
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• Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Business

• It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • History
  • Daily
  • Ethics

• I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Angry
  • Hammer
  • Thumb

• I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Quality
  • Imagination
  • Sacrifice