Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.
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I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
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Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.
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Lies are better than tranquilizers.
