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Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

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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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Good
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Seem

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My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
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But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo
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I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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I've always been a magnet for guilt.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
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