Elena Ferrante Quotes
They were just like the relations from whom I had fled as a girl. I couldn’t bear them and yet they held me tight, I had them all inside me.
Elena Ferrante
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
Camille Guaty
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
Yair Lapid
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
Dana Spiotta
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
Dan Savage
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
Saint Basil
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
Ram Shriram
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
Victoria Osteen
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
Adam Grant
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
Fiona Apple
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Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.
E. W. Howe
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
Audre Lorde
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Can you imagine your second album - the difficult second album - it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, 'It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
Bono
U2
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Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.
Jay Pharoah
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I never weigh myself. That's the best advice I can give - never step on a scale. You know if you're being healthy, if you're exercising. You don't need to be undermined by some crazy number.
Elaine Irwin
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole
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I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.
Dave Goldberg
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I have made more money than I ever thought anybody should ever make. But who cares if you're worth $500 million or $1 billion? That is not what I want to be remembered for, but for giving something back.
Jorge M. Perez
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When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.
William Butler Yeats
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When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
Sara Blakely
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A girl is like a tree? Yeah, and a guy is about as smart as a piece of dead wood infested with termites.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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They were just like the relations from whom I had fled as a girl. I couldn’t bear them and yet they held me tight, I had them all inside me.
Elena Ferrante
