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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

Isabel Allende

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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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Youth
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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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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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A book is not an end in itself it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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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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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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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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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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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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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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