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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
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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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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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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.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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