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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.

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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Surely
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Lifetime
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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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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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.
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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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Empowering women means trusting them.
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.
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