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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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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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I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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