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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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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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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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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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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Anytime you want to hear about graph partitioning, I will be glad to tell you what I know about graph partitioning. It remains a standard problem. I think it's an interesting problem, because it shows up in a variety of guises in real life.
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If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
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Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.
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I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud
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It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.
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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.
