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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

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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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 have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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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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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.
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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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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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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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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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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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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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It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.
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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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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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