My Brilliant Friend By Elena Ferrante Quotes

#1. I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

India.Arie

#2. I am wearied to death with life.
There's nothing it has that I want,
but I celebrate my naked earth,
there's no other world to descant.

Osip Mandelstam

#3. There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights.

John Trudell

#4. From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme 'smile'.

Nicola Lecca

#5. To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. Not for you," Lila replies ardently, "you're my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls.

Elena Ferrante

#7. I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

Allen Iverson

#8. During the Reagan years the left fretted about "two hundred billion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see." What were annual deficits under Reagan became monthly deficits under Obama. In less than eight years, Obama has doubled the national debt.

Dinesh D'Souza

#9. Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.

Jeffrey Steingarten

#10. But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.

Irene Dunne

#11. The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.

K.M. Soehnlein