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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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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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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
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And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
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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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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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Libraries are the pride of the city.
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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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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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Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
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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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I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
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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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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 wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
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I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.
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