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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
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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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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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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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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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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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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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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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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'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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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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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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