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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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I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the message, even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form. – Isabel Allende

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Freedom
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. – 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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Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. – Jan Peter Balkenende

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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. – Albert Bandura

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My experiences have taught me a lot and Im happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. – Ally Sheedy

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