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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.

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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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 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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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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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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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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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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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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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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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
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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.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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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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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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