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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
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Oakland
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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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People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
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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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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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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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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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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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How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
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That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
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You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?
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But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
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Hardships can harden even the best person.
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Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
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And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: Then you must save it. And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try.
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That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
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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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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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