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Author: Amy Tan
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Amy Tan _ The Opposite of Fate: Memories
And in my family, there were two pillars of beliefs: Christian faith on my father's side, Chinese fate on my mother's. Picture these two ideologies as you might the goalposts of a soccer field, faith at one end, fate at the other, and me running between them trying to duck whatever dangerous missile had been launched in the air.
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Amy Tan _ The Valley of Amazement
Forget about love. You will receive that many times, but none of it is lasting.
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Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning
Sólo recuerdas lo que quieres recordar. Sólo sabes lo que tu corazón te permite saber.
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Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter
¿Qué es el pasado si no aquello que elegimos recordar?
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Amy Tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter
Una persona ha de reflexionar sobre el origen de las cosas. Cada comienzo conduce a un fin determinado.
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Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club
I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more.
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Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club
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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Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club
My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was as if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was faith that kept all these good things coming our way, only I thought she said "fate," because she couldn't pronounce the "th" sound in "faith."And later, I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
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Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club
I also found out why I should never reveal the "why" to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.
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Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club
Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief. In one small moment we had both lost the world, and there was no way to get it back.
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Amy Tan _ The Valley of Amazement
The moment is altered as soon as I try to capture it, so for me, it's impossible." How true, I thought. Moments are gone as soon as you think about them.
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Amy Tan _ The Valley of Amazement
Why does love end so quickly and hatred last without end?
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