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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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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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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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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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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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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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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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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 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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A book is not an end in itself it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
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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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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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