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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

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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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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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