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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

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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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When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.
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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.
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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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And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
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What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.
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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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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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