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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

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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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Journey
Language
Mesmerizing
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Exile
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The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
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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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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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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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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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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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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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