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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

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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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When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.
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Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
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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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Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
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You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
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But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
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Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.
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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.
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Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
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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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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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