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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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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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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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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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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.
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how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
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Your only shame is to have shame.
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
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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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But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo
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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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Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
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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 have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
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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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If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
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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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