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

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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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and 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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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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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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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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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 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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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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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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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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