Amy Tan
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.
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There are certain things about me that I will never tell...There's a band called Pantera that I listen to...A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees...Confidence is not, 'They will like me'...It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you...The tyrant dies and his rule is over...
