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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
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Mesmerizing
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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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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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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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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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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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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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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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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