Quotes About Imagination
Volví a sacar novelas de la biblioteca circulante, las leía una tras otra. Pero a la larga no me hicieron bien. Proponían vidas intensas, diálogos profundos, un fantasma de la realidad más apasionante que mi vida real. Así, para sentir
~ Elena Ferrante
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In my spare time I didn't go out, I sat and read novels I got from the library: Grazia Deledda, Pirandello, Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Beautiful everywhere, outside and in, male fantasies.
~ Elena Ferrante
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What I expect from a good story is that it will tell me today what I can't know from any other source but that story, from its unique way of putting something into words, from the feeling that it implies.
~ Elena Ferrante
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With greater or less ability we fabricate fictions not so that the false will seem true but to tell the most unspeakable truth with absolute faithfulness through the fiction.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Disse che la faccia schifosa delle cose non bastava a scrivere un romanzo: senza fantasia non pareva una faccia vera, ma una maschera.
~ Elena Ferrante
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scoprii in pubblico quanto avessi imparato assistendo a quello sforzo doloroso di scavo. Parlai di come avessi cercato da sempre, per impormi, di essere maschio nell'intelligenza – io mi sono sentita inventata dai maschi, colonizzata dalla loro immaginazione, esordivo tutte le sere
~ Elena Ferrante
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Yes, it's Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Vedi? Nelle favole si fa come si vuole e nella realtà si fa come si può».
~ Elena Ferrante
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Parlai di me come se avessi cercato da sempre, per impormi, di essere maschio nell'intelligenza - io mi sono inventata dai maschi, colonizzata dalla loro immaginazione, [...].
~ Elena Ferrante
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Sim, eu dizia, vamos fazer, vamos imaginar, até na vida adulta, um monte de coisas insensatas, por alegria ou por exaustão.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Falei de como tinha tentado desde sempre, a fim de me impor, ser um homem na inteligência - percebi-me inventada pelos homens, colonizada por sua imaginação
~ Elena Ferrante
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Volevo scrivere storie piene di spifferi.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Segno che forse Lila aveva ragione: la gente di quella risma bisognava combatterla conquistandosi una vita superiore, di quelle che loro non potevano nemmeno immaginare.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Io - dopo tanta fatica - non so pensare. Nemmeno Mariarosa sa: ha letto pagine e pagine e le ricombina con estro, dando spettacolo. Tutto qui. Lila invece sa. E' la sua natura. Se avesse studiato, avrebbe saputo pensare a questo modo.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Lila had remained there, chained in a glaring way to that world, from which she imagined she had taken the best.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.
~ Elena Ferrante
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You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can." "That's
~ Elena Ferrante
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La mia vita mi spinge a immaginarmi come sarebbe stata la sua se le fosse toccato ciò che è toccato a me, che uso avrebbe fatto della mia fortuna. E
~ Elena Ferrante
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The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it's possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it's a duty.
~ Elena Ferrante
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My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Do you have your book?" "No, it's not out yet." "A copy of the last one you wrote?" "Yes." "Take it and sit here, pretend to be reading." I obeyed in a daze. Tina grabbed a book, too, and assumed the same pose, saying to Imma: Take a picture of me.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Pero sigo pensando que cuando nos atribuimos de modo más o menos arbitrario la tarea de contar no debemos preocuparnos por la serenidad de quien nos lee, sino solo por construir ficciones que ayuden a contemplar la condición humana sin demasiados filtros.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Reading brought on a desire to write, and writing brought on a desire to read.
~ Elena Ferrante
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