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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
Inspirational
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Life
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Attitude

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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
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Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei
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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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Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
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A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
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What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.
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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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I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.
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I did not lose myself all at once.
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People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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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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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.
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