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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. (Amy Tan)
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. View quote
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I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. View quote
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds. View quote
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. View quote
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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. View quote
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. View quote
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It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. View quote
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. View quote
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I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person. View quote
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I have always known a thing before it happens. (Amy Tan)
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate. View quote
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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. View quote
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix? View quote
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If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk. View quote
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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. View quote
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Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different. View quote
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To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei. View quote
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If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too? View quote
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart? View quote
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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. (Amy Tan)
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei. View quote
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Why do you think you are missing something you never had? View quote
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For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. View quote
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What is the past but what we choose to remember? View quote
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