"I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions……" — Amy Tan
"I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer."
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202 Quotes by Amy Tan
Amy Tan has 202 quotes on this site.
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Memory feeds imagination.
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A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
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Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
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I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T…
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a…
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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over,…
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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex…
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Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus.…
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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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More Breathless Quotes
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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
— Rupert Brooke
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"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come!…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never…
— Diana Nyad
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
— Dorothy Gilman
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice…
— Anthony Trollope
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One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my…
— Stephen King
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most…
— Eric Burdon
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Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your…
— Robert Breault
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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