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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.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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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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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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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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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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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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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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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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