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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
Write
Book
Miserable
Writing
Salvation
Think
Saved
Thinking
Pay
Somebody
Books
Hope

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When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
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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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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.
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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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And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.
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I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
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I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.
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