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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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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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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
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A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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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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We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
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My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
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How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
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Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
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If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo
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You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)
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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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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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