I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on, the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.

~ Amy Tan

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Even if I could live forever,” she said to the baby, “I still don’t know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason.“But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well.

~ Amy Tan

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