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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

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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Pessimistic
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Silence
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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