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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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how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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Fate changes when you change your clothes.
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Your only shame is to have shame.
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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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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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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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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 wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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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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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.
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My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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