Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende is a Chilean author known for her poignant novels that explore themes of love, loss, and resilience, particularly in 'The House of the Spirits.'

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Born
August 2, 1942
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322
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#219

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"My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes you older. Um I don't agree. I think that of course you have to smell good and be clean but there's much more that you have to do. Don't complain, exercise, be be strong, um work, be creative, be related to the world, have causes, fight for them passionately. I think all those things are important. I I'm not going to give up and just smell good."

Strong Giving Up Hate
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"The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential."

Pain Children Excess Baggage
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"Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it."

Writing Air Creative
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"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy."

Children Sea Calligraphy
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"Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers."

Reality Light Tiny
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"He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul."

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

Phones People Want
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"Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders."

Girl Leader Today
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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."

Lonely Character People
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"As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and sprout like strange plants from other worlds. What is the fertile humus of the subconscious composed of? Why are certain images converted into recurrent themes in nightmares or writing?"

Memories Lying Writing
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"At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me."

Blood Imagination Stronger
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"We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning."

World Action Ethics
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"Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind."

Mind Youth States
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"Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change."

Reality Dying World
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"I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans."

New Orleans Historical Stories
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"I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same."

People World May
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