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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
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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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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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
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I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.
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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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What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.
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That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
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Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.
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And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
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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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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
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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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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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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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