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Chaos is the penance for leisure.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Penance
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Chaos

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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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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.
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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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But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo
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I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
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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 love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
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You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
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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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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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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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I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.
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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
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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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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
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