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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
Lisa See
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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
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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 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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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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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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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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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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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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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’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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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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Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
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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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