Elena Ferrante Quotes

Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.

Elena Ferrante

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• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

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• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

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• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

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• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

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• History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

  

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• Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

  

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• I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

  

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• The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

  

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• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

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• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

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• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

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• The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

  

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• When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

  

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• I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.

  

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• I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.

  

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• The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.

  

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• The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'

  

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• Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

  

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• There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

  

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• Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.

  

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• Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Fear
  • Suffering
  • Gift