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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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A book is not an end in itself it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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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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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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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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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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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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