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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Firsts
First
Things
Collecting
Life
Spend
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Getting
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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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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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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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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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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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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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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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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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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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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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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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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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