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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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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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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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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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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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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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So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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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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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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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 books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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