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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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People
Falling
Suffer
Afraid
Suffering
Fall
Love

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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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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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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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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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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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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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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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I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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