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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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Just As Daniel Balalcazar

Isabel Allende
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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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Soul
Body
I Was Such A Sullen, Angry, Sad Kid. I'm Sure There Are Writers Who Have Had Happy Childhoods, But What Are You Going To Write About? No Ghosts, No Fear. I'm Very Happy That I Had An Unhappy And Uncomfortable Childhood.
Writing
Kids
Childhood
Roots Are Not In Landscape Or A Country, Or A People, They Are Inside You.
Country
Roots
People
Two Thirds Of The Work In The World Is Done By Women. Women Own 1 Percent Of The Assets. Young Women Are Sold Into Prostitution, Forced Labour, Premature Marriage, Forced To Have Children They Don't Want Or They Can't Support. They're Abused, Raped, Beaten Up. Domestic Violence Is Supposed To Be A Cultural Problem. They Are The First Victims Of War, Fundamentalism, Conflict, Recession. And Young Women Who Have Access To Education And Health Care And Have Resources Think That Everything Was Done, They Don't Have To Worry.
Children
War
Thinking
In Venezuela, When I Was Living There, Crime Was Growing. You Couldn't Feel Safe Anywhere. You Couldn't Leave Your Car In The Street Because It Would Be Stolen. You Coun't Live In Your House If You Didn't Have A High-security Alarm System, Because You Would Be Burglarized Seven Times A Week.
Car
House
Alarms
You Can Tell The Deepest Truths With The Lies Of Fiction
Lying
Fiction
She Sowed In My Mind The Idea That Reality Is Not Only What We See On The Surface; It Has A Magical Dimension As Well And, If We So Desire, It Is Legitimate To Enhance It And Color It To Make Our Journey Through Life Less Trying.
Journey
Reality
Color
No Complaining About How Hard It Is To Write, We Are All So, So Lucky To Write, To Sit Down, Inside, And Write Words On Paper. There Is No Greater Freedom, No Greater Good, Nothing That Brings More Joy.
Writing
Joy
Complaining
Literary Characters, Like My Grandmother's Apparitions, Are Fragile Beings, Easily Frightened; They Must Be Treated With Care So They Will Feel Comfortable In My Pages
Character
Grandmother
Care
​courage Is A Virtue Appreciated In A Male But Considered A Defect In Our Gender. Bold Women Are A Threat To A World That Is Badly Out Of Balance, In Favor Of Men.
Men
Balance
Males
I Need To Tell A Story. It's An Obsession. Each Story Is A Seed Inside Of Me That Starts To Grow And Grow, Like A Tumor, And I Have To Deal With It Sooner Or Later.
Needs
Stories
Obsession
Music Is A Wind That Blows Away The Years, Memories, And Fear, That Crouching Animal I Carry Inside Me.
Memories
Animal
Blow
We All Have An Unsuspected Reserve Of Strength Inside That Emerges When Life Puts Us To The Test.
Tests
Reserves
Writing Is A Calling, Not A Choice.
Writing
Choices
Calling
Having A Point To Start Is Important. You Know That When You Decide To Write Something It's Like A Commitment. It's Like Falling In Love.
Falling In Love
Writing
Commitment
I Don't Think Of Literature As An End In Itself. It's Just A Way Of Communicating Something.
Book
Reading
Thinking
I Have Seen These Persons Speak Unthinkingly, Not Realizing That To Speak Is Also To Be. Word And Gesture Are Man's Thought. We Should Not Speak Without Reason.
Men
Gestures
Realizing
I Felt An Unrelenting Restlessness. It Was The First Time I Had Ever Experienced Jealousy, And That Emotion Clung To My Skin Day And Night Like A Dark Stain, A Contamination I Could Not Shed; It Became So Unbearable That When Finally I Rid Myself Of It, I Was Freed Forever Of The Desire To Possess Another Person Or The Temptation Ever To Belong To Anyone.
Dark
Night
Forever
Dying Is Not Easy. It's A Very Hard Transition.
Dying
Transition
Easy
Happiness Is Pure Kitch; We Come Into The World To Suffer And Learn.
Suffering
World
Pure
Perhaps We Are In This World To Search For Love, Find It And Lose It, Again And Again. With Each Love, We Are Born Anew, And With Each Love That Ends We Collect A New Wound. I Am Covered With Proud Scars.
World
Proud
Scar
Only In Romance Novels Or In Thrillers People Live Outside Of A Social And Political Context.
People
Romance
Political
I'm Not Willing To Sign A Contract. They Want Everything. They Want The Rights To Do The Movie And Everything Else They Can Think Of, Forever. There's No Limit To The Contract. In This Universe And Universes To Be Discovered - I'm Not Making This Up - This Is In The Contract.
Thinking
Rights
Forever
When You Tell A Story In The Kitchen To A Friend, It's Full Of Mistakes And Repetitions. It's Good To Avoid That In Literature, But Still, A Story Should Feel Like A Conversation. It's Not A Lecture.
Mistake
Kitchen
Stories
I Have Learned Many Things In The 30 Years That I Have Been Writing.
Writing
Years
I Have Learned
You Are My Angel And My Damnation; In Your Presence I Reach Divine Ecstasy And In Your Absence I Descent To Hell.
Love
Angel
Damnation
Sex Is The Instrument And Love The Music.
Sex
And Love
Instruments
People Are Afraid Of Falling In Love Because They Don't Want To Suffer.
Falling In Love
Love Is
People
I Met A Guy, Very Exotic To Me - He Was Blonde With Blue Eyes - And I Just Had A Fling That Turned Out To Be Love. I Moved To San Francisco To Spend A Week With Him And Get Him Out Of My System; I'm Still Here 26 Years Later.
Eye
Blue
Years
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.
Skins
Levels
Intimate
I Don't Think I Would Be A Writer If I Had Stayed In Chile. I Would Be Trapped In The Chores, In The Family, In The Person That People Expected Me To Be.
Thinking
People
Would Be
Eros Is Very Close To Death. And Both Things, In A Way, Balance Each Other.
Balance
Way
Eros
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.
Reading
Dark
Would Be
In My Book Tours I Get To Meet An Audience Every Night. And I See That There Are Mostly Young People, And There Are A Lot Of More Men Than Before, But Always Young, I Don't Get Older Men. As I'm Getting Older, My Audience Gets Younger!
Book
Night
Men
A Man Does What He Can; A Woman Does What A Man Cannot.
Women
Men
Doe
If I Didn't Write My Soul Would Dry Up And Die.
Writing
Dry Up
Soul
If This World Is Going To Be A Better Place For Our Grandchildren And Great-grandchildren, It Will Be Women Who Make It So.
Grandchildren
World
Better Place
Cooking Can Be Like Foreplay.
Cooking
There Is Room In The Human Heart For All The Divinities.
Heart
Divinity
Rooms
I Was Born In Ancient Times, At The End Of The World, In A Patriarchal Catholic And Conservative Family. No Wonder That By Age Five I Was A Raging Feminist - Although The Term Had Not Reached Chile Yet, So Nobody Knew What The Heck Was Wrong With Me.
Feminist
Catholic
Age
Sisters: Talk To Each Other, Be Connected And Informed, Form Women's Circles, Share Your Stories, Work Together, And Take Risks. Together We Are Invincible.
Strong Women
Circles
Risk
You Can't Find Someone Who Doesn't Want To Be Found.
Life
Want
Found
Give, Give, Give-what Is The Point Of Having Experience, Knowledge Or Talent If I Don't Give It Away?
Giving
Collaboration
Talent
My Life Is About Ups And Downs, Great Joys And Great Losses.
Loss
Joy
Life Is
There Is No Light Without Shadow, Just As There Is No Happiness Without Pain.
Pain
Light
Shadow
His Lifetime Was Less Than A Fraction Of A Second In Infinity. Or Maybe He Did Not Even Exist; Maybe Human Beings, The Planets, Everything In Creation Were A Dream...an Illusion. He Smiled With Humility When He Remembered.
Dream
Humility
Infinity
There Is No Death, Daughter. People Die Only When We Forget Them,' My Mother Explained Shortly Before She Left Me. 'if You Can Remember Me, I Will Be With You Always.
Daughter
Mother
Loss
Memory Is Fiction. We Select The Brightest And The Darkest, Ignoring What We Are Ashamed Of, And So Embroider The Broad Tapestry Of Our Lives.
Memories
Fiction
Select
Young Women Don't Want To Be Called Feminists Because It's Not Sexy And Ah They Think That Their Mothers And Grandmothers Have Achieved Everything They Want. They Don't Know How Poor Women Live, How Women In Rural Places Live, How 80 Percent Of Women In The World Are The Poorest Of The Poor, How Still There Are 27 Million Slaves, And Most Of Them Women And Girls.
Girl
Sexy
Mother
I Don't Read Thrillers, Romance Or Mystery, And I Don't Read Self-help Books Because I Don't Believe In Shortcuts And Loopholes.
Believe
Book
Self
Sometimes Journalists Ask Me, "what's The Message?" There Is No Message. I Think That Fiction Should Not Be Trying To Give Messages. Just Tell A Story.
Thinking
Giving
Trying
My Worst Flaw Is That I Tell Secrets, My Own And Everybody Else's.
Secret
Flaws
Worst
A Novel Is Achieved With Hard Work, The Short Story With Inspiration.
Inspiration
Hard Work
Stories
The Names Of Persons And Living Creatures Demand Respect, Because When We Speak To Them We Touch Their Heart And Become A Part Of Thier Life Force.
Heart
Names
Demand
How Many Times Have I Told You Not To Believe Everything You Hear? Seek Truth For Yourself.
Believe
Writers Speak For Those Who Are Kept In Silence
Silence
Speak
The Writer Of Good Will Carries A Lamp To Illuminate The Dark Corners.
Dark
Lamps
Corners
Peace Requires Everyone To Be In The Circle - Wholeness, Inclusion.
Circles
Diversity
Brotherhood
Love Is Music, And Sex Is Only The Instrument.
Sex
Love Is
Instruments
Write What Should Not Be Forgotten.
Writing
Forgotten
Should
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
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
I Write To Understand My Circumstances, To Sort Out The Confusion Of Reality, To Exorcise My Demons. But Most Of All, I Write Because I Love It!
Writing
Reality
Confusion
Feminism Has Never Been Sexy, But Let Me Assure You That It Never Stopped Me From Flirting, And I Have Seldom Suffered From Lack Of Men.
Sexy
Flirting
Men
Although Women Do Two-thirds Of The World's Labor, They Own Less Than One Percent Of The World's Assets.
Two
World
Assets
For Real Change, We Need Feminine Energy In The Management Of The World. We Need A Critical Number Of Women In Positions Of Power, And We Need To Nurture The Feminine Energy In Men.
Motivation
Real
Inspiration
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