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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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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
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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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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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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.
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Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5
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I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.
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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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I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.
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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
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Fate changes when you change your clothes.
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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
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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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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
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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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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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