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Amy Tan has 203 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 BE KNOWN…
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You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You…
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The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything…
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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or…
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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. It's a…
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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be…
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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction…
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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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