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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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Poetic
Inward
Reflection
Reader
Journey
Language
Mesmerizing
Engages
Exile

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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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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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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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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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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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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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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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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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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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