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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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From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
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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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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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Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
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He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.
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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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Dementia was like a truth serum.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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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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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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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 have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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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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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
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I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
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I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.
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I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.
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I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
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