Elena Ferrante Quotes
She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.
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I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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I'm always focused.
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My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
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I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.
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When I was still playing with dolls, I became aware of this terrible and incomprehensible thing for me: My father was not treated the same as others; we are not treated the same as others.
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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
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She was a woman who liked to be busy. If she needed something, she picked up the telephone and, link by link, put together the chain that led to her goal. She knew how to ask in such a way that saying no was impossible. And she crossed ideological borders confidently, she respected no hierarchies, she tracked down cleaning women, bureaucrats, industrialists, intellectuals, ministers, and she addressed all with cordial detachment, as if the favor she was about to ask she was in fact already doing for them.
