Amy Tan Quotes - Page 7

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• And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Thinking, Expectations

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.131, Penguin

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• My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

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  Jobs, Taken, Doctors

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

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• I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

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  Genre, Clear, Havens

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

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  Florida, Cuba, Dry

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• My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

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  Believe, Eye, San Francisco

  Amy Tan (2012). “The Hundred Secret Senses”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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

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  Understanding, Firsts, Remember

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.19, Penguin

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• I've always been a magnet for guilt.

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  Guilt, Magnet

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.101, Penguin

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• I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

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  Kids, Stories, Gothic

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

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• My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

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  Book, Want, My Favorite

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• On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.

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  Mother, New Year, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.240, Penguin

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• Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

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  Thinking, Unhappy, World

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.86, Penguin

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• how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

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  Opposites, World, Chaos

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.117, Penguin

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• You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

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  Thinking, People, Mind

  Amy Tan (2012). “Saving Fish From Drowning”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

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  Daughter, Eye, Knowing

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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• He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.

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  Morning, Stars, Sunset

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• I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

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  Inspiring, Enough, Expected

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

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  Believe, Loyal, Loyal Friend

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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• Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.

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  Wise, Blow, Wind

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?

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  Children, Pain, Disappointment

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.15, Penguin

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• They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

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  Country, Lying, Giving

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.252, Penguin

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• I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

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  Fate, Illusion, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.121, Penguin

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• She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.

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  Character, Eye, Men

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• Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

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  Thinking, Missing, Missing Something

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.25, Penguin

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• And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

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  Betrayal, Years, Piano

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• That 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? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.

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  Memories, Imagination, Different

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.75, Penguin

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