Elena Ferrante Quotes
I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
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When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.
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It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
