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You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Miserable
Writing
Salvation
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Saved
Thinking
Pay
Somebody
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Hope

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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.
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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
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You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
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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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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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I did not lose myself all at once.
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It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.
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When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.
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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
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My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
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And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose
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Why do you think you are missing something you never had?
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Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.
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