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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 hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.
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I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
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From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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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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how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
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We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
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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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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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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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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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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
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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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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary we did not have any books in the house.
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Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.
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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
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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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So sad! This 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?
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