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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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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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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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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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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Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.
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If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.
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When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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Ah, there is no city that gives off so much noise and such a clamor as Naples.
