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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
Amy Tan
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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
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Amy Ruth Tan
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If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
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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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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
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Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
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Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
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Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
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Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.
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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
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