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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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Cannot
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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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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
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If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
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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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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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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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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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Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
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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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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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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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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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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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And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
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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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