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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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Heart
Dissidents
Determines
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Determine
Fate
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
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I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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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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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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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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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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