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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
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Peace
Everyone
Inclusion
Wholeness
Brotherhood
Circle
Circles
Diversity

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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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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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I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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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 am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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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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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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