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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.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Give
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Cave
Country
Caves
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Lies
Love
Along
Lying
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Freedom

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If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
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And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.
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And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
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Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.
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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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