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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

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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Aphrodisiac
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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
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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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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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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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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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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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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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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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Write what should not be forgotten.
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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