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And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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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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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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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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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
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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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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 what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.
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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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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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You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
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You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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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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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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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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You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?
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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
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