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Quote by Isabel Allende

“Everyone is born with some special talent.”

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Isabel Allende, born on August 2, 1942, is a renowned Chilean writer known for her magical realism style. Her works have gained widespread popularity, with notable titles including 'Love in the Time of Cholera' and 'The House of the Spirits'. more

“my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.”

Thinking Truth Wonderful Mets Husband Twenties Careful Lawyer Versions Absurd My Husband Questioning

Author:Isabel Allende

“You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.”

Ifs Knows Writing Persons Book Sometimes Hands Fall Ocean Messages Bottles Shore Throwing Right Person Message In A Bottle

Author:Isabel Allende

“After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.”

Gone Fifty Bullshit

Author:Isabel Allende

“I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.”

Two Certain Roles Doors Week Feet Restaurants Twilight Two Weeks Flew Hype Portland

Author:Ashley Greene

“Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.”

Ifs Mind Eye Turns Imagination Cities Fire Magic Europe Train Corners Feds Charming Spectacles Dublin

Book:Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

Source: Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

“In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.”

Europe Hopefully Spain

Book:Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

Source: Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

“a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.”

Mind Lines Moved Train Sticks Locals Fats Leap Frogs Bounce Ponies Pogo Sticks

Book:Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

Source: Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

“The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.”

Knows Superiors Bores Baths Intercourse Pests

Book:Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

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