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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.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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City of the Kings
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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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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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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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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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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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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