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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
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Screenwriter
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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 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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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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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.
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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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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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