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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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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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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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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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I write a thousand words a day.
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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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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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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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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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You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
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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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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
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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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The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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