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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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Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei
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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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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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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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And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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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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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
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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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