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Your only shame is to have shame.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Shame

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Dementia was like a truth serum.
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Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
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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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