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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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Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
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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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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
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Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
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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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What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.
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But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
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Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
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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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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
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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 did not lose myself all at once.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
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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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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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