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Memory feeds imagination.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Feeds
Memory
Memories
Imagination

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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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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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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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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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My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
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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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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?
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I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.
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Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.
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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
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A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
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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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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.
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