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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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City of the Kings
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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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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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.
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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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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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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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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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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