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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
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Paris
France
Literary
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You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
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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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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
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i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
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I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.
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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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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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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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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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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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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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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
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May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.
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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love
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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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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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