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From Quotes by Isabel Allende
- We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need…
- I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong…
- I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?
- My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
- At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of…
- From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information,…
- Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of…
- I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:…
- Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us…
- I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each…
- As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes…
- I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past…
- Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in…
- How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
- Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap…
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