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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

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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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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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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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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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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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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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