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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Writing
Dreams
Love
Magic
Premonitions
Emotion
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Coincidences
Nature
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Emotions
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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Empowering women means trusting them.
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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
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