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They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
Amy Tan
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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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Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
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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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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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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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But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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