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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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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
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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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Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.
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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
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Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.
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He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.
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Memory feeds imagination.
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.
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Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
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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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With hope, a mind is always free.
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
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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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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.
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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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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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