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Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
Amy Tan
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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
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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's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
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My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
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I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
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From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
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It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
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