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Hardships can harden even the best person.

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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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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
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How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
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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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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
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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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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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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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On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
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I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.
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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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Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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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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Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
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I have always known a thing before it happens.
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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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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
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