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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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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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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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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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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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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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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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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 try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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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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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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