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The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

Lisa See

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Paris
France
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Greatest
Life
Literary

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Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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I write a thousand words a day.
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In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.
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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
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While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
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When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.
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All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.
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For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
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I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
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But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.
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I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
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I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
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My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
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