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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
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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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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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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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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Write what should not be forgotten.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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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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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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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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