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The Joy Luck Club (1989)
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I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
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I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
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Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
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Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.
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Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.
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Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
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I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.
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I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
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And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
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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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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
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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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Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5
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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
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Amy Tan
Born:
February 19, 1952
(age 72)
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