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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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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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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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I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
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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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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 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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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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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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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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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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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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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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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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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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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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