Isabel Allende Short Quotes

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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

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

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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

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Erotica is using a feather; pornography is using the whole chicken.

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The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

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When everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

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There are few virtues a man can possess more erotic than culinary skill.

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If we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.

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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.

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

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Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

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Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

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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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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

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You spend the first part of your life collecting things... and the second half getting rid of them.

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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

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Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees.

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At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

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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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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.

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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

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