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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
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Granted
Careful
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Heaven

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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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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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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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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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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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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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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
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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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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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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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