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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.
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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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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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I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.
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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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