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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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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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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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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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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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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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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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