"What is a secret wish?" "It is what…" — Amy Tan

"What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask."

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202 Quotes by Amy Tan

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Memory feeds imagination.
A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T…
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a…
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over,…
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex…
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus.…
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how…
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to…
Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because… — Billie Joe Armstrong
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever… — Bella Abzug
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other… — Saint Augustine
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing… — Jane Austen
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up… — Michele Bachmann
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale

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