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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Sins
Lust
Sin
Worth
Opinion
Two
Aphrodite
Gluttony
Committing

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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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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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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.
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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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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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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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