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God, life changes faster than you think.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
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And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
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You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
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From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
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That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.
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Fate changes when you change your clothes.
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You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
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Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
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