Quote by Isabel Allende
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldnt find a place for myself, for years and years. – Isabel Allende

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Im aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. – Isabel Allende

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Dreams
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I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. – Isabel Allende

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Home
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men. – Isabel Allende

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Change
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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. – Brian Eno

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Experience is what you get while looking for something else. – Federico Fellini

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I dont think Ive ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldnt be ours anymore. – Steve Jobs

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Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. Its part of racing. – Frank Shorter

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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. – Don Marquis

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

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Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. – Bob Lemon

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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. – William Law

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