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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
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Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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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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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.
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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.
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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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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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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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