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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
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Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5
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And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: Then you must save it. And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try.
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Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
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On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
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That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
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So sad! This 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?
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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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I've always been a magnet for guilt.
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Libraries are the pride of the city.
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With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
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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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But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
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People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
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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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