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But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

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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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Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
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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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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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Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
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They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
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A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
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My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
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No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.
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Hardships can harden even the best person.
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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
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Memory feeds imagination.
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You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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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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What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.
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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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