“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered...”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“هم لا يمضون مثلنا مرتدين الهواء والنور بل يستخدمون ثيابا نتنة”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“Nuestros pensamientos forman lo que suponemos que es la realidad”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“You're one of a kind, Kate!" Alex said, and smiled.
"We all are, Alexander.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“—Con la edad se adquiere cierta humildad, Alexander. Mientras más años cumplo, más ignorante me siento. Sólo los jóvenes tienen explicación para todo. A tu edad se puede ser arrogante y no importa mucho hacer el ridículo —replicó ella secamente.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
“La felicidad consiste en alcanzar aquello que hemos esperado por mucho tiempo.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from City of the Beasts
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Born place: in Lima, Peru
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“I recently had dinner with George. We did not eat fish. Instead we ate at a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant. I had lemon-grass chicken with chile, and George had stir-fried vegetables. Both meals were excellent, and both consisted of foods originating far from Spokane. Although we didn’t ask the cook where the chicken and other foodstuffs came from, it isn’t difficult to construct an entirely plausible scenario. Here it is: the chicken was raised on a factory farm in Arkansas. The factory is owned by Tyson Foods, which supplies one-quarter of this nation’s chickens and sends them as far away as Japan, The chicken was fed corn from Nebraska and grain from Kansas. One of seventeen million chickens processed by Tyson that week, this bird was frozen and put onto a truck made by PACCAR. The truck was made from plastics manufactured in Texas, steel milled in Japan from ore mined in Australia and chromium from South Africa, and aluminum processed in the United States from bauxite mined in Jamaica. The parts were assembled in Mexico. As this truck, with its cargo of frozen chickens, made its way toward Spokane, it burned fuel refined in Texas, Oklahoma, California, and Washington from oil originating beneath Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Mexico, Texas, and Alaska. All this, and I have chickens outside my door.”
― Derrick Jensen, quote from A Language Older Than Words
“It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.”
― Charlotte Featherstone, quote from Addicted
“We discuss things, rather than ideas; we exchange information, not theories; we keep ourselves steady by thinking about the particular. The general is frightening.”
― Fay Weldon, quote from The Life and Loves of a She Devil
“Remember that time you made the wish?
I make a lot of wishes.
The time I lied to you
about the butterfly. I always wondered
what you wished for.
What do you think I wished for?
I don't know. That I'd come back,
that we'd somehow be together in the end.
I wished for what I always wish for.
I wished for another poem.”
― Louise Glück, quote from The Wild Iris
“We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.”
― Paul Graham, quote from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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