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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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Truth
Complexes
Ideas
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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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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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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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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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God, life changes faster than you think.
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But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
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And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
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