I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
ELENA FERRANTEI had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
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A calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.
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Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick.
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The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
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I didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
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It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
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In order not to cut out a large part of one’s private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.
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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
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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.
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I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic – if we can call it that – between high and low. Maybe it’s because I was not born or brought up in affluence.
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I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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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.
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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.
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