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Amy Tan

"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."

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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."

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"Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice."

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"One way or another way it will happen..., until then make the correct choice. You don't want to go into the wrong path!"

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"My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones."

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"You made a choice-a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing."

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"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."

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"Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life."

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"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, 'Come on down!' But standing at the bottom looking up, it's finally dawned on me that it's not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it's the fact that I accepted them."

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"To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed."

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"You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest."

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"Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free."

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"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."

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"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"

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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."

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"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person."

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"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."

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"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."

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"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."

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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."

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"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

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"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."

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