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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
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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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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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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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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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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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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