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  1. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more.
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  2. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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  3. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    My mother believed in God's will for many years. It was as if she had turned on a celestial faucet and goodness kept pouring out. She said it was faith that kept all these good things coming our way, only I thought she said "fate," because she couldn't pronounce the "th" sound in "faith."And later, I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
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  4. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    I also found out why I should never reveal the "why" to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.
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  5. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief. In one small moment we had both lost the world, and there was no way to get it back.
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  6. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
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  7. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    Entonces debes enseñarle esta misma lección a mi hija. Cómo perder la inocencia pero no la esperanza. Cómo reír eternamente.
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  8. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.
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  9. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before before I have a chance to know her better.
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  10. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time.
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  11. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    I love my shadow, this dark side of me that had my same restless nature.
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  12. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!--it is too beautiful to eat.
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