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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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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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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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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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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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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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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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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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