Amy Tan Quotes

• Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

  Amy Tan

  Hope, Expectations, Soul

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• While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

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  Speak, Speak The Truth, Wells

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.133, Penguin

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• With hope, a mind is always free.

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  Mente

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.318, Penguin

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  Si no puedes cambiar tu destino, cambia tu actitud.

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  Inspiración, Vida, Cambio

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.47, Penguin

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• Tenía seis años cuando mi madre me enseñó el arte de la fuerza invisible... "El viento más fuerte no se ve".

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  Strength, Mother, Art

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• You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

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  Thinking, Self, Differences

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

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  Writing, Giving, Stories

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

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  Weakness, Done, Blame

  Amy Tan (1992). “The Kitchen God's wife”, Thorndike Pr

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• You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

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  Heart, Remember You, Remembers You

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.267, Penguin

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• ¡Qué triste! Esta es la parte más triste cuando pierdes a alguien a quien quieres: esa persona sigue cambiando. Y más tarde te preguntas: ¿Es la misma persona que perdí?

  Amy Tan

  Someone You Love, Wonder, Lost

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.80, Penguin

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• Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

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  Luck, Firsts, Steps

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.112, Penguin

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• The life we receive is not always what we choose.

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• Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

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  Feelings, Magic, Kind

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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

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  Secret, Wish, Want

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.70, Penguin

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• Your only shame is to have shame.

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  Vergüenza

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• That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

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  Hurt, Pain, Way

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.47, Penguin

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• Memory feeds imagination.

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  Memories, Imagination

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.27, Penguin

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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 a simple truth.

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  Writing, Simple, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.181, Penguin

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• I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

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  Solitario, Soledad, Escritura

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Escondí tan bien mis sentimientos más profundos que olvidé dónde los puse.

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  Feelings, Lovely, Good Advice

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• You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

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  Character, Thinking, Should

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• Soñamos para darnos esperanza. Dejar de soñar es como decir que nunca podrás cambiar tu destino.

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  Inspiración, Sueño, Esperanza

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 1995.

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• No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

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  Reality, Two, Different

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.189, Penguin

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• Hardships can harden even the best person.

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  Hardship, Best Person, Persons

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• I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

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  Niña, Hija, Madre

  "Fictional character: An-Mei". "The Joy Luck Club", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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