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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
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
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I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
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I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
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Hardships can harden even the best person.
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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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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
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That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.
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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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You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)
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Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
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I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.
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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
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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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Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
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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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And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
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