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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.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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City of the Kings
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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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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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
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