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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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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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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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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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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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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.
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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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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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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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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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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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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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