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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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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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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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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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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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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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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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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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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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