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Chaos is the penance for leisure.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Leisure
Chaos
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Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
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A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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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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Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
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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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You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
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I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.
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Your only shame is to have shame.
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
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That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.
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