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 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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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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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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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
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There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The more I go, the more I love life. Despite all the downfalls, I think it is extraordinary. I feel like I'm an observer in a science laboratory where you study life, lies and love. I'm delighted to be part of the experience. If you love life everything's possible. When you love life, life loves you back.
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Lies are better than tranquilizers.
