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Amy Tan quotes

American Novelist February 19, 1952

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I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones. Amy Tan
I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there. Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "But she never looked back with regret. There were so many..."
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.-Jing-mei Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless..."
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently? Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful..."
Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking. Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between..."
Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit. Amy Tan
Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? Amy Tan
But he was so attuned to my every movement I was sure he was reading my mind. HE had no inhibitions, and whatever ones he discovered I had he'd pry away from me like little treasures. Amy Tan
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. Amy Tan
I'm not consciously hiding anything.' After Ruth said that she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything - the irritation, the fears? How tiresome that would be. Amy Tan
She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.' Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show..."
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess."- Ch. 5 Amy Tan
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us. Amy Tan
When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it. Amy Tan
Amy Tan quote: "I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of..."
I imagine a hundred Chinese Icaruses, molding wings out of earwax. You can't stop people from wishing. Amy Tan

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