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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
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Joy
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Complaining
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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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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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