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Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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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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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
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I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
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If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei
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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
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