Elena Ferrante Quotes

He’s marrying me to have a faithful servant, that’s the reason all men get married.

Elena Ferrante

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• Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Faith

• Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Important
  • Why
  • New

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Live

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Movie
  • Seen
  • Million

• There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Life
  • Different
  • Stop

• If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Rest
  • Angry

• Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Time
  • World
  • Way

• At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you to give up if ever you are going to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Jesus

• I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Comedy
  • Actors

• We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • World
  • Picture
  • Drawing

• We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People

• I sing with all my heart and when I see the audience feel it too, I feel so touched I get goosebumps…To my fans, I would like to say, 'I will work harder', rather than to say, 'I love you' because I believe that sincerity has its way of getting across to touch hearts.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Heart

• The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Seek
  • Virtues
  • Imperfections

• There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a very clear, specific memory of and think you could do a good job writing about. What I find is that it's like a seed you plant. You can try it, and if it will grow and connect with other ideas in the book, and you can see connections that you can actually realize on the page, then you're allowed to leave it in. But if it just kind of lies there and doesn't really add up to anything or there's no chemistry with everything else going on in the book, then you have to take it out.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • Writing
  • Memories
  • Realizing

• Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Giving
  • Boxing
  • Prose

• I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Doctors

• He’s marrying me to have a faithful servant, that’s the reason all men get married.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reason
  • Servant
  • Marrying