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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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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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A book is not an end in itself it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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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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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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