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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

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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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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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 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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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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