Control freak Quote by Isabel Allende

“I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.”

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Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

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“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.”

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“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is…

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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd…

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