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  1. 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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  2. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    {Karen Lundegaard} was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. {"If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that."}"
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  3. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? 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.
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  4. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    When the anesthesia of love wears off,you suffer the pain of consequence.
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  5. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity.
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  6. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may.
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  7. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I had placed them.
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  8. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    I was greedy, she warned, and could not fill my heart with enough pleasure, my stomach with enough contentment, my body with enough sleep. I was like a rice basket with a rat hole at the bottom, and thus could not be satisfied and overflow, nor could I be filled. I would never know the full depth and breadth of love, beauty, or happiness. She said it like a curse.
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  9. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but in a style that suited the country.
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  10. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between.
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  11. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    ...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first feelings of pleasure. She teaches her when to later exercise restraint, or to take squealing joy in recognizing the fluttering leaves of the gingko tree, to sense a quieter but more profound satisfaction in chancing upon an everlasting pine. A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.
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  12. Amy Tan _ Saving Fish from Drowning

    ...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.
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