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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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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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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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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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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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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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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 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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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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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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I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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