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Amy Tan Biography

Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience. Her novel The Joy Luck Club was adapted into a film in 1993 by director Wayne Wang.

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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

America, Giving, Joy Luck Club, Keep, Nobody, Says

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Behinds, Come, Fill, Form, Left, Left Behind

People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

Dream, Let, Letting Go, Mind, People

So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

Daughter, Hard, Hold, Mother, Pain, Skin

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

Guilt, Magnet

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

Cuba, Dry, Florida, Know, Learn, Tortugas

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

Lindo, Longer, Sacared, See

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Firsts, Place, Remember, Things, Understand, Understanding

Your only shame is to have shame.

Shame

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

Make, Remember, Vomiting, Wonder, Wondering

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Becasue, Events, Let, Opportunity, Things, Want Something

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.

Feelings, Magic, Kind, Power, Words

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Catchers, Forbidden, Influence, Reading, Things

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

Disappear, Imagine, Nowhere, Want

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

Flesh, Joy Luck Club, Pain, See, Though

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

Catchy, Fear, Hands, Holding, Power, Showing

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

Chess, Play, Show, Use, Want

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Joy, Sorrow, Tears, Turtles, Useless

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

Writing, Seven, Novel, Times, Throw

What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?. . . And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.

Color, River, Rivers, Same, True, Wind

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