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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

Isabel Allende

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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 love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
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She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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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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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 can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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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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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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