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

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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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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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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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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We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
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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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It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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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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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
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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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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 success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
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