"Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile……" — Isabel Allende
"Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages"
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212 Quotes by Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende has 212 quotes on this site.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to…
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who…
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women…
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice,…
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for…
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have…
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More Apparitions Quotes
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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well…
— Longchenpa
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect…
— Michelangelo
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Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it.…
— Jason Hawes
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with…
— Gautama Buddha
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I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine…
— Unknown Author
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A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it;…
— Hollis Frampton
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I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked…
— William Thomas Walsh
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a…
— William Wordsworth
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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way…
— Woody Allen
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We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows.…
— Joan Didion
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Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are…
— Thomas Hobbes
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