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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

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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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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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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
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