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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

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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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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