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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
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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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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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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