Chilean - Writer | August 2, 1942 -
Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.
Isabel Allende
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
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I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
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The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
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It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.
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At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.
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If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.
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I try to write the kind of books I like to read.
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You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.
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