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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-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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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
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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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You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.
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We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
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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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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
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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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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
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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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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary we did not have any books in the house.
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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
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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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I did not lose myself all at once.
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When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
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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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You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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