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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
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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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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Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
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Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.
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If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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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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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.
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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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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
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We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
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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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That 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? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.
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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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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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If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.
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