"And for all those years, we never talked……" — Amy Tan
"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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202 Quotes by Amy Tan
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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how…
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to…
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Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which…
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One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
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