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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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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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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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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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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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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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The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.
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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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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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