Natalia Ginzburg Quotes
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
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There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.
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As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
