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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

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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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages
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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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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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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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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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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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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 learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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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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