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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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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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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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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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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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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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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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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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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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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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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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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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