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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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That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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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'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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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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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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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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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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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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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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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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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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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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