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What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
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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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I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.
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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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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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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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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
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But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
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And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: Then you must save it. And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try.
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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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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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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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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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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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Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
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