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A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
Bird
Pond
Tears
Ponds
Another
Psychiatrist
Dream
Pour
Doe
Tells
Find
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Really
Misery
Drinking

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I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.
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You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei
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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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Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
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