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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
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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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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We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
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I've always been a magnet for guilt.
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Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had finally done. So i shut her eyes with my fingers and told her with my heart: I cah see the truth, too. I am strong, too.
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I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength...strongest wind cannot be seen.
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It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.
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You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)
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Dementia was like a truth serum.
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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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Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
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After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
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If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
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I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.
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