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In all these years we've been together," he said, "I don't think I know an important part of you. You keep secrets inside you. You hide. It's as though I've never seen you naked, and I've had to imagine what you look like behind the drapes." "I'm not consciously hiding anything." After Ruth said that, she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything - the irritations, the fears? How tiresome that would be. What did he m..
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Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" --
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inspiration
intro
medical-insurance
cancer
introduction
insurance
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How can I argue with someone who makes no sense?
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Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the river, and I don't want his ghost visiting to keep telling me he's sorry.
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sorry
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Entonces debes ensenarle esta misma leccion a mi hija. Como perder la inocencia pero no la esperanza. Como reir eternamente.
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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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suffering
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Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.
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funny
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Why does love end so quickly and hatred last without end?
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The moment is altered as soon as I try to capture it, so for me, it's impossible." How true, I thought. Moments are gone as soon as you think about them."
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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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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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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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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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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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Una persona ha de reflexionar sobre el origen de las cosas. Cada comienzo conduce a un fin determinado.
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And in my family, there were two pillars of beliefs: Christian faith on my father's side, Chinese fate on my mother's. Picture these two ideologies as you might the goalposts of a soccer field, faith at one end, fate at the other, and me running between them trying to duck whatever dangerous missile had been launched in the air.
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My friend, my editor, still had the cancer. Each day she had to cross a terrible chasm, a bottomless hole of not knowing what to hope or believe. I tried to imagine what she saw, but I did not have her perspective.
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Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.
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I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.
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Amy Tan |
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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 |
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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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Amy Tan |
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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Amy Tan |
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Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense?
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Amy Tan |
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Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?
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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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