Elena Ferrante Quotes
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
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I am not a big reader to begin with.
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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
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I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.
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I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.
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The Great Khali always serves up a good beatdown if you can't get out from under that heavy hand.
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Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
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Accurst be he that first invented war.
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Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.
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I don't like to write boring books.
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There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.
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The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
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That year it seemed to me that I expanded like pizza dough.
