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Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
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He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.
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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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I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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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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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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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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And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
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Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
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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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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
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