Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 8

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• Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.

  Isabel Allende

  Black, Caverns, Realizing

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

  Isabel Allende

  Pain, Children, Excess Baggage

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• Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

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  Warrior, Gun, Thinking

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Character, Emotions Feelings

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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• The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.

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  Country, Community, World

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

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• There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Lying, Writing

  Interview with Jordan E. Rosenfeld, www.writersdigest.com. August 27, 2008.

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• For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, Support, Looks

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• 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: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

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  Practice, California, Bored

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• I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.

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  Jobs, Writing, Stories

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.

  Isabel Allende

  Spiritual, Hate, Mean

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• That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.

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  Lying, Clouds, Floating

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

  Isabel Allende

  Needs, Stories, Obsession

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• I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

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  Dog, Sleep, Men

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Obsessed

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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• I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.

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  Falling In Love, Men, Thinking

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

  Isabel Allende

  Dark, Night, Forever

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

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  Country, Home, Tree

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

  Isabel Allende

  Brain, Fiction, Belly

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• 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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  Character, Grandmother, Care

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

  Isabel Allende

  Fascination, Heroism, Occupation

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• After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

  Isabel Allende

  Bullshit, Gone, Fifty

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• The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.

  Isabel Allende

  Dancing, Slave

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• That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

  Isabel Allende

  Lying, Writing, Tired

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• I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Kids, Childhood

  "California dreaming" by Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2008.

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• In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

  Isabel Allende

  Country, Powerful, Giving

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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