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Isabel Allende quotes: Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ... Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ...
Isabel Allende quotes: She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously. She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.
Isabel Allende quotes: Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
Isabel Allende quotes: If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.
Isabel Allende quotes: When everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars When everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars
Isabel Allende quotes: What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist? What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist?
Isabel Allende quotes: The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle. The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.
Isabel Allende quotes: The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners. The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.
Isabel Allende quotes: He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe. He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe.
Isabel Allende quotes: She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality. She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.
Isabel Allende quotes: The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric. The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.
Isabel Allende quotes: Cooking can be like foreplay. Cooking can be like foreplay.
Isabel Allende quotes: Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken. Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
Isabel Allende quotes: Color prejudice is so strong that if a woman has yellow hair, even if she has the face of an iguana, men turn to look at her in the street. Color prejudice is so strong that if a woman has yellow hair, even if she has the face of an iguana, men turn to look at her in the street.
Isabel Allende quotes: This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice. This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.
Isabel Allende quotes: We only appreciate what we have when we lose it. We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
Isabel Allende quotes: Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Isabel Allende quotes: All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained. All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.
Isabel Allende quotes: The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea. The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea.
Isabel Allende quotes: There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them. There is no death, daughter.
People die only when we forget them.
Isabel Allende quotes: Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness
Isabel Allende quotes: Not only serve the meal, they offer to cut the meat. Not only serve the meal, they offer to cut the meat.
Isabel Allende quotes: We only have what we give. We only have what we give.
Isabel Allende quotes: I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years. I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.
Isabel Allende quotes: A fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst. A fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
Isabel Allende quotes: Everyone in his place and a place for everyone. Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.
Isabel Allende quotes: I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too. I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too.
Isabel Allende quotes: epistolary communication: epistolary communication:
Isabel Allende quotes: In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage. In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.
Isabel Allende quotes: 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 men. 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 men.
Isabel Allende quotes: A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape. A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.
Isabel Allende quotes: I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Isabel Allende quotes: After fifty most of the bullshit is gone. After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.
Isabel Allende quotes: The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing
Isabel Allende quotes: I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
Isabel Allende quotes: Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul. Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.
Isabel Allende quotes: I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time. I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
Isabel Allende quotes: He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything. He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
Isabel Allende quotes: sin sufrimiento, no hay historia sin sufrimiento, no hay historia
Isabel Allende quotes: He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent. He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.
Isabel Allende quotes: Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway. Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
Isabel Allende quotes: But even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women. But even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.
Isabel Allende quotes: Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
Isabel Allende quotes: Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
Isabel Allende quotes: I go, but I always remember you. I go, but I always remember you.
Isabel Allende quotes: It's easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing. It's easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.
Isabel Allende quotes: The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
Isabel Allende quotes: I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research. I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
Isabel Allende quotes: A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
Isabel Allende quotes: Sex is the instrument and love the music ... Sex is the instrument and love the music ...
Isabel Allende quotes: It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others. It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.
Isabel Allende quotes: That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep. That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep.
Isabel Allende quotes: I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.
Isabel Allende quotes: A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman. A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.
Isabel Allende quotes: Write what should not be forgotten. Write what should not be forgotten.
Isabel Allende quotes: He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
Isabel Allende quotes: Writing is a constant exercise in longing. Writing is a constant exercise in longing.
Isabel Allende quotes: But I don't want more things than I need, either. But I don't want more things than I need, either.
Isabel Allende quotes: And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone. And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
Isabel Allende quotes: You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Isabel Allende quotes: If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera, he would say again and again If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera, he would say again and again
Isabel Allende quotes: I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her. I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
Isabel Allende quotes: I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude. I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.
Isabel Allende quotes: I need to remember to overcome. I need to remember to overcome.
Isabel Allende quotes: There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed. There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.
Isabel Allende quotes: For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Isabel Allende quotes: Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way. Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
Isabel Allende quotes: 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. 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.
Isabel Allende quotes: At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet. At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.
Isabel Allende quotes: Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
Isabel Allende quotes: I try to write the kind of books I like to read. I try to write the kind of books I like to read.
Isabel Allende quotes: I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen. I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
Isabel Allende quotes: I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it! I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
Isabel Allende quotes: With women the best aphrodisiac is words. With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
Isabel Allende quotes: It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this. It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
Isabel Allende quotes: We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test. We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
Isabel Allende quotes: I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours. I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.
Isabel Allende quotes: My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish. My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish.
Isabel Allende quotes: All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus. All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.
Isabel Allende quotes: Autumn of the Patriarch, Autumn of the Patriarch,
Isabel Allende quotes: Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest. Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
Isabel Allende quotes: The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force. The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
Isabel Allende quotes: She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer. She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.
Isabel Allende quotes: I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how. I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
Isabel Allende quotes: They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
Isabel Allende quotes: Our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight. Our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.
Isabel Allende quotes: I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Isabel Allende quotes: The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes. The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.
Isabel Allende quotes: In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter ... the success means nothing to my small tribe. In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter ... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
Isabel Allende quotes: I haven't forgotten. But if I fail you, you can rely on Cathy. I haven't forgotten. But if I fail you, you can rely on Cathy.
Isabel Allende quotes: My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English. My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
Isabel Allende quotes: At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to
Isabel Allende quotes: My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth. My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.
Isabel Allende quotes: The hardest thing of love is to let go. The hardest thing of love is to let go.
Isabel Allende quotes: Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
Isabel Allende quotes: Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it. Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.
Isabel Allende quotes: I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man. I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.
Isabel Allende quotes: You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love. You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
Isabel Allende quotes: When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince. When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.
Isabel Allende quotes: Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

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