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Happy endings usually don't work for me. I like open endings. I trust the reader’s imagination.

— Isabel Allende

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More quotes by Isabel Allende

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

Of Love and Shadows (1984)

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Paula (1994)

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

Inés of My Soul (2006)

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Of Love and Shadows (1984)

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

Maya's Notebook (2011)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Moore

An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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