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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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City of the Kings
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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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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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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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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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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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Empowering women means trusting them.
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I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
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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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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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