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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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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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Too many good things all seem the same after a while.
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.
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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.
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Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
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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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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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God, life changes faster than you think.
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My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
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Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.
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And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
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Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours.
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I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.
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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
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I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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