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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

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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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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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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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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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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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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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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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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She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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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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