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When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
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If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
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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 now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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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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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
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How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
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I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
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I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.
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But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.
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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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We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
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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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And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.
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