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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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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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You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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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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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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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 was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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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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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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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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