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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

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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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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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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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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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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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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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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.
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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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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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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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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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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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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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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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