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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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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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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 do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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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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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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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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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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