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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Inspiring
Loved
Nothing
Enough
Love
Freely
Received
Fully
Expected

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Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
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On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.
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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
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Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.
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You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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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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