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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.

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've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.
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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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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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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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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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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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