Isabel Allende Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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

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If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.

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I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.

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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

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Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

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The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

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One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

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I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.

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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

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Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.

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My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

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I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

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I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

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Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

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If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

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I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.

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Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.

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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

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