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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.
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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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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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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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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 am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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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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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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