The Opposite of Fate (43 page)

All photographs courtesy Amy Tan.

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Shortly after I wrote this piece, I went helicopter skiing and tore my quadriceps, pulled my hamstring, and broke off the top of my tibia. But I’m still skiing.

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In striking contrast to the rest of the audience, my mother did not shed a tear. She told me after the movie ended that it was “pretty good. In real life, everything so much sadder. So this, already much better.”

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Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality,
ed. D. G. Mandelbaum (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949).

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Although we had a contract for
The Kitchen God’s Wife,
I eventually decided to return to the more solitary world of fiction writing. Ron, Wayne, and I talk from time to time about doing an original screenplay. When the cards fall into place with as much luck as for our first film, I will know that it is the right and irresistible thing to do.

Copyright © 2003 by Amy Tan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tan, Amy
The opposite of fate : a book of musings / Amy Tan.
p. cm
ISBN 0-7865-4140-7 (MSR)
ISBN 0-7865-4141-5 (AEB)
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