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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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So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
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How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
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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 wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
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We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.
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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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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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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
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