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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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Women
Best
Aphrodisiac
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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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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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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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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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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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 calling, not a choice.
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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'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
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