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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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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.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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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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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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Empowering women means trusting them.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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