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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

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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Intentions
Intention
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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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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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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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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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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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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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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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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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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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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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