Elena Ferrante Quotes
But the condition of wife had enclosed her in a sort of glass container, like a sailboat sailing with sails unfurled in an inaccessible place, without the sea.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
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I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
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Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.
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I never wanted 'Toy Story 3' to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.
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I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.
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Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.
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I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.
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If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.
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Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
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We should like to see this Assembly shake itself out of complacency and move forward. We should like to see the committees begin their work and not stop at the first confrontation. Imperialism wishes to convert this meeting into a pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the grave problems of the world. We must prevent their doing so.
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I have twins. They are 4 years old. They know the word 'concert,' so they know father's job is 'concert,' and they prefer concert over father.
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Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
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In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.
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I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.
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I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.
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The next move is with the head, and fists must wait.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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Post or pillar. Since their ignorance prevents them from recognizing the vicious nature of their condition, they cannot discern even the tracks of a path to deliverance. Most beings live immersed in the enjoyment of sensual pleasures. Others, driven by the need for power, status, and esteem, pass their lives in vain attempts to fill an unquenchable thirst. Many, fearful of annihilation at death, construct belief systems that ascribe to their individual selves, their souls, the prospect of eternal life. A few yearn for a path to liberation but do not know where to find one. It was precisely to offer such a path that the Buddha has appeared in our midst.
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But the condition of wife had enclosed her in a sort of glass container, like a sailboat sailing with sails unfurled in an inaccessible place, without the sea.
