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Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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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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How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
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But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
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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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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
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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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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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Fate changes when you change your clothes.
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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
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That 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? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.
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But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
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Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.
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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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