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All objects exist in a moment of time.

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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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But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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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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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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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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I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
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