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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
Imagination
Feeds
Memory
Memories

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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
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Libraries are the pride of the city.
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And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
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Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
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How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
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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 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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You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)
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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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Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei
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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary we did not have any books in the house.
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Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
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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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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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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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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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