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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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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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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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We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
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We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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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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What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.
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