Amy Tan Thoughts
Best 30+ Amy Tan Messages, Quotes, and Images
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
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Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.
Once upon a time the English knew who they were.
If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.