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

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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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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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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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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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.
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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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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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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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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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