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Everyone is born with some special talent.

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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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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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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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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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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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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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