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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

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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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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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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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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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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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.
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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 fear is not real, Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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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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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 tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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