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Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment Quotes: The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.
         

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, 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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This page presents the quote "The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.". Author of this quote is Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment. This quote is about distance, story, narration,.