"You must think for yourself, what you must……" — Amy Tan

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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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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