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With hope, a mind is always free.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Always
Free
Hope
Mind

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I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
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Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5
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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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how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
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That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
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I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.
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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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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
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I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.
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My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
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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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