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I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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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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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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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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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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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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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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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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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.
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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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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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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So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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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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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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