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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary we did not have any books in the house.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
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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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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.
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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.
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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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I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
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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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Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.
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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
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And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
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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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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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