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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Lisa See
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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
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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 love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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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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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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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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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'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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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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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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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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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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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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i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
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