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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

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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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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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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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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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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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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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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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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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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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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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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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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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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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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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