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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.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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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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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.
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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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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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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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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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