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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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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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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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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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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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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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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.
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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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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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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 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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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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