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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

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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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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
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I did not lose myself all at once.
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
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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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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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That 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? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.
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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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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
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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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Fate changes when you change your clothes.
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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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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
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I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.
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