Amy Tan Quotes

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• Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

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  Hope, Expectations, Soul

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• While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

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  Speak, Speak The Truth, Wells

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.133, Penguin

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• With hope, a mind is always free.

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  Mind

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.318, Penguin

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  If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.47, Penguin

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

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  Strength, Mother, Art

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• You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

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  Thinking, Self, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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  Writing, Giving, Stories

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

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  Weakness, Done, Blame

  Amy Tan (1992). “The Kitchen God's wife”, Thorndike Pr

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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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  Heart, Remember You, Remembers You

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.267, Penguin

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• So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

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  Someone You Love, Wonder, Lost

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.80, Penguin

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• Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

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  Luck, Firsts, Steps

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.112, Penguin

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• The life we receive is not always what we choose.

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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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  Feelings, Magic, Kind

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

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  Secret, Wish, Want

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.70, Penguin

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• Your only shame is to have shame.

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  Shame

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• That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

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  Hurt, Pain, Way

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.47, Penguin

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• Memory feeds imagination.

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  Memories, Imagination

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.27, Penguin

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• I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

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  Writing, Simple, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.181, Penguin

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• I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

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  Feelings, Lovely, Good Advice

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• You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

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  Character, Thinking, Should

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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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  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 1995.

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• No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

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  Reality, Two, Different

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.189, Penguin

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• Hardships can harden even the best person.

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  Hardship, Best Person, Persons

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• I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

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  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  "Fictional character: An-Mei". "The Joy Luck Club", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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