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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

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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Women
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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