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I'm usually woken by a vibration on my up-band. It's the gradual vibration for about ten seconds, and then the chimes of my blue light. It's just a way to wake gently. It all gently puts me into awake-mode. I play music off of my Sonos playlist. 'The Rachmaninoff Concerto 3 in D-minor', 1st movement.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Blue Gently Gradual Just Light Me Movement Music Off Play Play Music Puts Seconds Ten Then Vibration Wake Way

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For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard before, and it must have its own particular intelligence. By 'voice,' I don't mean vernacular. It has to have its own particular history and world that it inhabits.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Before Books Definitely Heard History Intelligence Keep Mean Must Never Own Particular Reading Vernacular Voice Want World

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My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It's not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Been Clear Entire Exactly Exactly What Family Grandmother Her Huge Huge Influence Influence Just Loved Me Met Mystery Myth Never Our She Someone Truth

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In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Actually Also Houses Known Master Musicians Were

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I was shocked, and I ended up contacting three academics to find out if it could possibly be that my grandmother was a courtesan.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Academics Could Ended Find Grandmother Out Possibly Shocked Three Up

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For many courtesans, it was over by age 22.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Age Many Over

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In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Bit Could Courtship Even House Little Little Bit Longer Much Night One Night Period Second-Class Years

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Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Billy Collins Emily Emily Dickinson Jane Like Loud Out Poetry Read Walt

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I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Because Bible Book Books Chinese Day Did Elders Every Every Day Except Fairy Fairy Tales Family Father Fiction Grew Had Heard Italians Like Liked Looked Minister People Prayers Stories Tales Up Verses Were Which

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My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Beliefs Believe Best Changes Context Does Everything Experiences Grow Inspiring Me Mother Open Openness Question Remained Sense Shift Skeptic Strive Values Word I Believe

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 19th, 1952

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