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We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

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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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I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.
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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
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Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
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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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You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
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My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
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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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You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.
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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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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.
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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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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
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Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
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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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