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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #interested #obstacles #overcome #people

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#belong #california #chile #exile #i

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#grief #happy #moments #struggle #writing

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#away #being #comes #cut #experience

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. ↗

— Luther Allison

#buddy #deserves #finally #got #guy

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. ↗

— Mose Allison

#decided #finally #going #gonna #i

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#art #development #find #knowledge #life

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #job #think #writing

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#behind #believe #bodies #both #i