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Write what should not be forgotten.

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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Forgotten
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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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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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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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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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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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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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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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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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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'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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