"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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Source : Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.164, Penguin

Elena Ferrante

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes #Skins Quotes

“And people are so het up about the fact I'm in the theatre - it's like, 'Ooh these telly names, can they be any good?' I came out of RADA and my first job was at the National Theatre, but everyone wonders if I can cope. It makes me laugh.”

Source : "Joanna Page: 'Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him'". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.
“I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.”
“I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.”
“Balancing your ego is the most important thing, because success fuels ego - and that is not easy sometimes. When you're in the public eye, people see that as success and it's just not.”
“In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.”
“I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.”
“You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.”
“I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.”

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