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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
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
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So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
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You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.
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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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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
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And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
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My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
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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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I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
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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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My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
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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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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
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That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
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I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
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