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Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

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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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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.
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Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
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They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
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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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I did not lose myself all at once.
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When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
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I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
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In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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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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I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
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What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.
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You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
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Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.
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How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
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Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.
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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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