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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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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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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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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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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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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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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
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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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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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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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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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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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