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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

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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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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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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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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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 hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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