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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
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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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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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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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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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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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We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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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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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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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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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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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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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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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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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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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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