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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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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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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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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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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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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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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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