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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

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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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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
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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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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
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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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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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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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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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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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