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Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Seem
Seems
Many
Good
Things

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...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
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I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed 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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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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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
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There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.
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Your only shame is to have shame.
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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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You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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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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I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
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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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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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With hope, a mind is always free.
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
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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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