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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Years
Carry
Wind
Inside
Memories
Animal
Fear
Crouching
Away
Blows
Music
Blow

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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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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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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 carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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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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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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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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Write what should not be forgotten.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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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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A book is not an end in itself it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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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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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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