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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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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 son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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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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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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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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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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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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I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
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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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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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