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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.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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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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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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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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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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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
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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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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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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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