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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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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 not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.
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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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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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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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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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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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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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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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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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