Isabel Allende Quotes

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: August 2, 1942

Topics

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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Jessye Norman

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I operate off of fear almost exclusively.

Joel McHale

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A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

John Norman

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Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

Mia Wasikowska

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I've actually done a really good job listening to my body, relaxing. Some days you train hard, some days you rest a little bit.

Robbie Lawler

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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.

Ruth Reichl

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With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process as well as the serious aspects I write about.

Jay Asher

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Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Jordan Peterson

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We did the 'MacGruber' Super Bowl spot for Pepsi, which generated some outside interest. We have a sketch where a guy blows up after 90 seconds. How are we going to make that into a movie?

Jorma Taccone

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I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

DeRay Mckesson

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David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

Douglas Booth

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