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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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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
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If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
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But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.
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A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
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I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
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My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
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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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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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So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
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It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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Your only shame is to have shame.
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Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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Memory feeds imagination.
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
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So sad! This 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?
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But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo
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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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