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Quote by Isabel Allende
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing

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

Other quotes by Isabel Allende

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. – Isabel Allende

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Fear
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so. – Isabel Allende

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Women
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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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Other Quotes from
Death
category

Perhaps we dont need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. Thats enough for me. – Brad Pitt

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Death

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. – Plato

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Death

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art. – John James Audubon

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Death

Loved. You cant use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. – Ken Kesey

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Death

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I realize that humor isnt for everyone. Its only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. – Anne Wilson Schaef

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Humor

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Happiness

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. – Mervyn Peake

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Senses

But I do think its important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books. – China Mieville

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Wisdom