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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

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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 learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
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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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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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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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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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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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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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