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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.

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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Second
Remembered
Maybe
Humility
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Illusion
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Planets
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Beings
Smiled
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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