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

Isabel Allende

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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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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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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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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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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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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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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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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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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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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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