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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

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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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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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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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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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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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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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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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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