From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of … - Amy Tan

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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

Amy Tan

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

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Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

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With hope, a mind is always free.

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Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.

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He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.

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My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

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