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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.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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City of the Kings
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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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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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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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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'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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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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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
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So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
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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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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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