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He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
Lisa See
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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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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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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
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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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I write a thousand words a day.
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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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You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
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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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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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We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.
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i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
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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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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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Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
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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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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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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
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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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