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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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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 library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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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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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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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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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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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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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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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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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
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