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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

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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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Complexes
Ideas
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
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And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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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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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.
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Dementia was like a truth serum.
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I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
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The life we receive is not always what we choose.
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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 think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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I've always been a magnet for guilt.
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.
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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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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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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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How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
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