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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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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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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
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