Elena Ferrante Quotes
You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
Elena Ferrante
Quotes to Explore
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Youssou N'Dour
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
Campbell Scott
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
Ida B. Wells
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
Frances McDormand
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
T. S. Eliot
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Only God can look at somebody's heart.
Joel Osteen
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When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.
Saina Nehwal
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Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.
Chris Ofili
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I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
Lorraine Adams
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You wanted to write novels, I created a novel with real people, with real blood, in reality.
Elena Ferrante
