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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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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
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Amy Ruth Tan
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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
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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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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
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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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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.
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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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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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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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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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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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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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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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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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Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
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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 unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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