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Writing is a calling, not a choice.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Calling
Choice
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.
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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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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
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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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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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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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