The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
ELENA FERRANTEI didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
More Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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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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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.
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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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The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
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My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.
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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.
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I didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
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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.
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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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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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I 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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Those who write need that “willing suspension of disbelief “, as Coleridge called it.
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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick.
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