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I have always known a thing before it happens.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo
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My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
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But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
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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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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.
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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
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Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.
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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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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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Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.
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Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
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I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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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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