Elena Ferrante Quotes
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
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I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.
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I find that any luminous body when seen through a dense and thick mist diminishes in proportion to its distance from the eye. Thus it is with the sun by day, as well as the moon and the other eternal lights by night. And when the air is clear, these luminaries appear larger in proportion as they are farther from the eye.
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I had a heart then But the queen has been overthrown
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It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.
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When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
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In the city, I wake bolt upright in the small hours, convinced that intruders are marauding through our apartment despite Swiss bank-style security arrangements.
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Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
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Ah, there is no city that gives off so much noise and such a clamor as Naples.
