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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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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Chance
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I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength...strongest wind cannot be seen.
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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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And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
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I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
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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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It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
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You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
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But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.
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I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
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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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Memory feeds imagination.
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I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
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