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Fate changes when you change your clothes.

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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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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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Libraries are the pride of the city.
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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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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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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
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Your only shame is to have shame.
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
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If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
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And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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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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A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
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Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
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