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Amy Tan

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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Nasihat

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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Kehidupan

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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Kehidupan

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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Kehidupan

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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.

Kehidupan

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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Kehidupan

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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Kehidupan

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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Kehidupan

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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, thatâ€™s like saying you can never change your fate.”

Kehidupan