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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Attitude
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Life
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I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
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Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
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Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
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It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo
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I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.
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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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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 was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
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My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
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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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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
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