Elena Ferrante Quotes
A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
Beck
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
Laura Mvula
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole
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The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise quarterback.
Jeffrey Lurie
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I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.
Elizabeth Strout
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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.
Hector Hugh Munro
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Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
Franz Schubert
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A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
Elena Ferrante
