Isabel Allende: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 3)

Isabel Allende ist chilenische Schriftstellerin. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”

Quelle: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

“His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.”

Isabel Allende buch Daughter of Fortune

Quelle: Daughter of Fortune

“It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.”

Isabel Allende buch Maya's Notebook

Quelle: Maya's Notebook

“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.”

Isabel Allende buch City of the Beasts

Quelle: City of the Beasts

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change”

Isabel Allende buch Das Geisterhaus

Variante: Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Quelle: The House of the Spirits

“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”

Isabel Allende buch Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Quelle: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

“The theme of displacement is very natural for me. It always comes up in my books because I have been a foreigner all my life and I don’t feel I belong anywhere. I’m an immigrant.”

On how her sense of self remains tied to her native country in “Isabel Allende: 'Few couples survive the death of one child, let alone three'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/02/isabel-allende-interview-marriage-breakup-the-japanese-lover in The Guardian (2015 Dec 2)

“Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don’t struggle as a child? I don’t think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.”

On how her miserable childhood may have inadvertently affected her writing in “The incredible life of Isabel Allende” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10589928/The-incredible-life-of-Isabel-Allende.html in The Telegraph (2014 Jan 28)