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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

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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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The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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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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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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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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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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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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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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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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