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

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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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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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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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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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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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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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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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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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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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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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 a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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