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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.

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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People
Causes
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Obscurity
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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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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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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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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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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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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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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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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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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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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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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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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