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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Characters
Interested
Circumstances
Happens
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Conditioned

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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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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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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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Empowering women means trusting them.
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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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It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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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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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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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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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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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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