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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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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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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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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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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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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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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.
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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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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 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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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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