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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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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei
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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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While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
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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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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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With hope, a mind is always free.
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Libraries are the pride of the city.
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
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Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.
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I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
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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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I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
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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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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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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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All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying
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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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Your only shame is to have shame.
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