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

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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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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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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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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 have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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