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Quote by Isabel Allende

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”

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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

“Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.”

Mind Doe Real States Reality Happiness Joy Values Achieve Destruction Guilt Inner Peace Producers Penalties Contradictory Clash Escaping Drunkards

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.”

People Thinking Way Feels Looks Sometimes President Okay Torture Permission Foreigners

Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel

Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel

“I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).”

Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

“No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”

Author:Maya Angelou

“Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.”

May Real Lying Broken Being True Imaginary

Author:Joanne Harris

“The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.”

Sometimes Happens Magic Circumstances Everyday Warning Accord Alchemy Layman Everyday Things Fanfare

Author:Joanne Harris

“I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.”

World Feels Beautiful Painful Impression Psychics Blindness Vibrations Mystic Sensory Huxley

Author:Anais Nin

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