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Elena Ferrante Quotes

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible Picture Quote #1

Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings Picture Quote #1

I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring Picture Quote #1

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind Picture Quote #1

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others Picture Quote #1

At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions Picture Quote #1

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As a girl-twelve, thirteen years old-I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me Picture Quote #1

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose Picture Quote #1

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors Picture Quote #1

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated Picture Quote #1

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living Picture Quote #1

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell Picture Quote #1

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I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned Picture Quote #1

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories... The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would Picture Quote #1

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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible (Elena Ferrante Quotes) Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings. (Elena Ferrante Quotes) I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring. (Elena Ferrante Quotes) Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind. (Elena Ferrante Quotes) Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others. (Elena Ferrante Quotes) At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions. (Elena Ferrante Quotes) As a girl-twelve, thirteen years old-I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me. (Elena Ferrante Quotes) The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose (Elena Ferrante Quotes) I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors (Elena Ferrante Quotes) The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated (Elena Ferrante Quotes) He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living (Elena Ferrante Quotes) Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell (Elena Ferrante Quotes) I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned (Elena Ferrante Quotes) Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories... The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would (Elena Ferrante Quotes)