Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people. Isabel Allende More Quotes by Isabel Allende More Quotes From Isabel Allende I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. Isabel Allende journalist stories sometimes He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. Isabel Allende ignorant quality arrogance If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour. Isabel Allende stories life way The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up. Isabel Allende three writing two Barrabas came to us by the sea. Isabel Allende sea I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it. Isabel Allende waiting letting-go trying That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities. Isabel Allende floating clouds lying His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference. Isabel Allende indifference justice wind Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted. Isabel Allende granted might heaven She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation. Isabel Allende mother running country 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 alarms body father Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. Isabel Allende inward journey reflection I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me. Isabel Allende blood reality ideas I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember? Isabel Allende writing memories past Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia. Isabel Allende portraits destiny stories A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes. Isabel Allende loneliness winning book Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn. Isabel Allende pure suffering world But I don't want more things than I need, either. Isabel Allende want needs She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality. Isabel Allende crushed reality world Remember that all the others are more afraid than you Isabel Allende remember
