Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 10

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• Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.

  Isabel Allende

  Destiny, Portraits, Stories

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.36, University of Texas Press

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• 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

  Believe, Vegas, Maestro

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• Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

  Isabel Allende

  Suffering, World, Pure

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• Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

  Isabel Allende

  Suffering, May, Said

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• But I don't want more things than I need, either.

  Isabel Allende

  Needs, Want

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• His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.

  Isabel Allende

  Dream, Humility, Infinity

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• I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

  Isabel Allende

  Way, Female, Born

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• 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

  Honesty, Hate, Writing

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• My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

  Isabel Allende

  Father, Alarms, Body

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• I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• 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 the engineers to create the networks, we need every human being to be aware of how precious water is and save it. Everybody has to be involved in a very firm and assertive way.

  Isabel Allende

  Technology, People, Water

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• I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

  Isabel Allende

  Home, Years, People

  "This much I know". Interview with Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

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• I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

  Isabel Allende

  Stories, I Realized

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• I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

  Isabel Allende

  People, Overcoming, Obstacles

  "Allende Examines the Caribbean's Chaotic History Through New Novel". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2010.

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• 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

  Jobs, Rights, Media

  "Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2008.

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• I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Life Changing, Thinking

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• I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

  Isabel Allende

  Years, Can't Change, Has Beens

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• I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

  Isabel Allende

  Clinton, Knows

  "This much I know". Interview with Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

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• I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

  Isabel Allende

  Stories, Sometimes, Journalist

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• I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, Feminist

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• The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

  Isabel Allende

  Lying, Order, Giving

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• 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

  California, Exile, Chile

  "Of exiles and healers". Interview with Kim Hendry, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 1989.

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• When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

  Isabel Allende

  Mistake, Kitchen, Stories

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• I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

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

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