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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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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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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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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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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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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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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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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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That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.
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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
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Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
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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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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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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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That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
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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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And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
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Memory feeds imagination.
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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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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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Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
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