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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.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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City of the Kings
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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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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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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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'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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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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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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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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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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