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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.

Lisa See

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
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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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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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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’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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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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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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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.
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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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