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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
Ardent
Struggle
Words
Find
Must
Men

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But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
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Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?
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Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.
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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.
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That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
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All objects exist in a moment of time.
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Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
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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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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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If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
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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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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.
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What is a secret wish? It is what you want but cannot ask.
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I've always been a magnet for guilt.
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With hope, a mind is always free.
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I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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