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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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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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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
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I write a thousand words a day.
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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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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
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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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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
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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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Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love
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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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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 am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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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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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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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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