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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

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
Small
Happiness
Lost
Sense
Mindedness
Action
Gratification
Live
Ethics
Without
Actions
World
Meaning

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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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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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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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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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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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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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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
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