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

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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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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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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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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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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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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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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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 such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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