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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

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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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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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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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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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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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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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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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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
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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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I need to remember to overcome.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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