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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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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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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
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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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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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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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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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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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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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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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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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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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