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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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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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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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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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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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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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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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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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