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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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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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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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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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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.
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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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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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