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You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
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California
Amy Ruth Tan
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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
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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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My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
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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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I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.
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I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.
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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
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I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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