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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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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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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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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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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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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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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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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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I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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