Elena Ferrante Quotes
A broken clock that, because its metal heart continued to beat, was now breaking the time of everything else.
Elena Ferrante
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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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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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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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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
Vernon L. Smith
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
Ai Weiwei
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There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.
Elena Ferrante
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
