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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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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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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 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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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
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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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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.
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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
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