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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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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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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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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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