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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

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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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Delicate
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Clara

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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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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 most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
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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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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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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 many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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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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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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