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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 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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The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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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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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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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
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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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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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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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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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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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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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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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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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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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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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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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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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