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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Seek
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Truth
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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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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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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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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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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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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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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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