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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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how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
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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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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo
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What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.
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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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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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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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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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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.
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And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
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Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
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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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