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God, life changes faster than you think.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
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So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?
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That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
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I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
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But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
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Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
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We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.
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...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.
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And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
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I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
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