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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
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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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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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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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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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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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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Empowering women means trusting them.
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I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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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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