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

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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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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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