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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.


Isabel Paterson

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ISABEL ALLENDE ¿Qué nos pasó? Tal vez estamos en el mundo para buscar el amor, encontrarlo y perderlo, una y otr...
ISABEL ALLENDE Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable s...
ISABEL ALLENDE Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, ben...
ISABEL ALLENDE Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
ISABEL YOSITO Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses...
ISABEL ALLENDE I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone...
ISABEL GILLIES I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my reade...
ISABEL ALLENDE A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look a...
ISABEL ALLENDE I've spent months living in Africa and India. So it's not like I was sheltered when I starte...
ISABEL LUCAS One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women....
ISABEL ALLENDE ... la vida es ante todo luz y se necesita muy poco para apagar esa luz.
ISABEL ABEDI All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for...
ISABEL ALLENDE I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don&#...
ISABEL ALLENDE Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is somet...
ISABEL ALLENDE I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people ...
ISABEL ALLENDE I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted...
ISABEL ALLENDE Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generati...
ISABEL GILLIES All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming u...
ISABEL ALLENDE I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear...
ISABEL ALLENDE شيئًا فشيئًا أخذ غيابك وخسارات أخرى في حياتي بالتحول إ�...
ISABEL ALLENDE I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.
ISABEL LUCAS