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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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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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World
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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
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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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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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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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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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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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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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God, life changes faster than you think.
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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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