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Isabel Allende

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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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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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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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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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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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A book is not an end in itself it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
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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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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.
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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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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 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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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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