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But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Oakland
California
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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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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God, life changes faster than you think.
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I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
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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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I did not lose myself all at once.
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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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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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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 have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.
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A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
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Hardships can harden even the best person.
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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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