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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
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I've always been a magnet for guilt.
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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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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Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
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God, life changes faster than you think.
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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.
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You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?
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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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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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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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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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