Isabel Allende Quotes
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ...
— Isabel Allende
Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy ...
— Isabel Allende
Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
— Isabel Allende
Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
— Isabel Allende
Writing is a calling, not a choice.
— Isabel Allende
He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe.
— Isabel Allende
Alma Belasco had caught her attention. She stood
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She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.
— Isabel Allende
Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
— Isabel Allende
Barrabas came to us by the sea.
— Isabel Allende
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
— Isabel Allende
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
— Isabel Allende
Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
— Isabel Allende
Hitchhiking and sleeping in cemeteries. (He explained to me that they're very safe, no one goes there at night.)
— Isabel Allende
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
— Isabel Allende
My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
— Isabel Allende
But I don't want more things than I need, either.
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Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.
— Isabel Allende
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
— Isabel Allende
And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him
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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life's predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
— Isabel Allende
Everyone is born with some special talent ...
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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He almost caused a riot among the ladies; he filled all the empty space, as if someone had let a tiger loose in this world of female longing. Even
— Isabel Allende
Gervasio Lonquimay
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Writing is a constant exercise in longing.
— Isabel Allende
Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
— Isabel Allende
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
— Isabel Allende
The hardest thing of love is to let go.
— Isabel Allende
The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.
— Isabel Allende
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
Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.
— Isabel Allende
At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to
— Isabel Allende
I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
— Isabel Allende
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
— Isabel Allende
I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I will lose my way.
— Isabel Allende
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
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
— Isabel Allende
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.
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You only have one life, but if you live it well, that's enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?
— Isabel Allende
Moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics who faithfully go to mass deny their workers a dignified wage.
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
— Isabel Allende
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
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.
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purple tongue, and that the whitish hair that
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that were to drive us to the port to
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
— Isabel Allende
You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
— Isabel Allende
I try to write the kind of books I like to read.
— Isabel Allende
What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
— Isabel Allende
Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.
— Isabel Allende
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
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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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
Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega?-No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so. — Isabel Allende
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
— Isabel Allende
With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities.
— Isabel Allende
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
If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead,
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
— Isabel Allende
I need to remember to overcome.
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After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward ... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
— Isabel Allende
I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?
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I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.
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You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
— Isabel Allende
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
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
— Isabel Allende
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.
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He realized ... that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
— Isabel Allende
I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
— Isabel Allende
And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
— Isabel Allende
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
— Isabel Allende
I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.
— Isabel Allende
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
— Isabel Allende
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women ... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
— Isabel Allende
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
Meditation helps.
— Isabel Allende
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
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
— Isabel Allende
Write what should not be forgotten.
— Isabel Allende