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  1. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    How can I argue with someone who makes no sense?
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  2. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    This is the kind of China you Americans always see in the movies - the poor countryside, people wearing big hats to protect themselves from the sun. No, I never wore a hat like that! I was from Shanghai. That's like thinking someone from San Francisco wears a cowboy hat and rides a horse. Ridiculous!
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  3. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? How can you think everyone can be a hero, choosing death, when it is part of our nature to let go of brave thoughts at the last moment and cling to hope and life?
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  4. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    If you don't take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need to take another chance to turn things from bad to good.
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  5. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.
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  6. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    All night long I worried, not about myself but about Jimmy. I imagined him looking for me, running through the park, looking in the movie theatres. He was a good man, considerate and kind, but he was not strong. He had never been through any kind of bad hardship before. So I worried.
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  7. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped off. Something between those two feelings.
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  8. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.
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  9. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    In this matter, you should not concern yourself for my sake.
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  10. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
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  11. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
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  12. Amy Tan _ The Kitchen God's Wife

    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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