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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
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Words
Find
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Men

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And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.
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I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
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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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Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
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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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We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
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To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.
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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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From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.
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But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei
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Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
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Dementia was like a truth serum.
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Libraries are the pride of the city.
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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
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There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.
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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
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That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
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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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I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.
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