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I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
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Amy Ruth Tan
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
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I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength...strongest wind cannot be seen.
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I did not lose myself all at once.
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My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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Memory feeds imagination.
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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
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I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
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Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.
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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
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I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
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Hardships can harden even the best person.
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Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.
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