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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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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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.
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The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
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I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.
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Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
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I thought that after such a long time of not letting her be with me. I would like to bring her back into my life.
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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.
