Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 9

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• Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.

  Isabel Allende

  Heart, Men, Law

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

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• She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Pride, Opposites

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• I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Thinking, People

  "“Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”". Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.

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• I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.

  Isabel Allende

  Moving, Thinking, Care

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• We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, War, People

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• Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

  Isabel Allende

  Balance, Way, Eros

  "Isabel Allende discusses new book on sex and food". "CNN Sunday Morning" with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 31, 1998.

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• A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Exercise, Mirrors

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• I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.

  Isabel Allende

  Lonely, Husband, Magic

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• Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Light, Tiny

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• The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

  Isabel Allende

  Cutting, Years, Roots

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• In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

  Isabel Allende

  Moving, Thinking, Diversity

  "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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• A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.

  Isabel Allende

  Loneliness, Book, Winning

  Isabel Allende (1989). “Paths of resistance: the art and craft of the political novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Aunt, Worst Enemy

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

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• My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

  Isabel Allende

  Struggle, Grief, Writing

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• A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

  Isabel Allende

  Landscape, Window, Infinite

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Determination, Giving Up

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• The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Two, Three

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• Barrabas came to us by the sea.

  Isabel Allende

  Sea

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• The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Thinking, People

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

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• I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Years, I Have Learned

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• Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

  Isabel Allende

  Art, Jobs, Writing

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

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• 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

  Sexy, Flirting, Men

  "Tales of passion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• There is no death, daughter.
  People die only when we forget them.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, People, Forget

  Isabel Allende (2015). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Names, Forgotten

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

  Isabel Allende

  World, Thirds, Third World

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

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