Amy Tan Quotes - Page 7

• Y debajo del heimongmong, a lo largo de todo el suelo, había maleza que ya se desparramaba por los bordes, corriendo salvaje en todas direcciones.

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  Running, Weed, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.196, Penguin

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• Al tercer día de la muerte, el alma regresa para ajustar cuentas. En el caso de mi madre, sería el primer día del new year lunar. Y como es new year, hay que pagar todas las deudas, o vendrán el desastre y la desgracia.

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  Mother, New Year, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.240, Penguin

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• Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.

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  Stupid, Warning, Heed

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• Y recuerdo que me preguntaba por qué comer algo bueno podía hacerme sentir tan mal, mientras que vomitar algo terrible podía hacerme sentir tan bien.

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  Vomiting, Remember, Wonder

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.154, Penguin

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• La gente piensa que es una tragedia terrible cuando alguien tiene Alzheimer. Pero en el caso de mi madre, es diferente. Mi madre ha sido infeliz toda su vida. Por primera vez en su vida, es feliz.

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  Mother, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• God, life changes faster than you think.

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  Life, Thinking, Inspire

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

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• You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

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  Saving, Pay, Intention

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.125, Penguin

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• Llevaba un precioso vestido rojo, pero lo que vi fue aún más valioso. Yo era fuerte. Era pura. Tenía pensamientos genuinos en mi interior que nadie podía ver, que nadie podría arrebatarme jamás. Yo era como el viento. -Lindo

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  Beautiful, Strong, Wind

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.58, Penguin

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• All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

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  Running, Years, Shadow

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• Y ahora pienso que el destino está moldeado mitad por las expectativas, mitad por la falta de atención. Pero, de algún modo, cuando pierdes algo que amas, la fe se apodera de ti. -Rose

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  Fate, Thinking, Expectations

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.131, Penguin

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• Pero nunca miró atrás con pesar. Había muchas maneras de que las cosas mejoraran. -Jing-mei

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  Regret, Get Better, Way

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.102, Penguin

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• I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

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• If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

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  Choices, Forever, Trying

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• To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei

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  Pierde

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.283, Penguin

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• After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

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  Past, Remember

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.252, Penguin

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• But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

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  Niños, Hombres, Personas

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

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  Moving, Thinking, Knowing

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, October 17, 1995.

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• Estamos perdidos, ella y yo, sin ver y sin ver, sin oír y sin escuchar, desconocidos por los demás.

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  Unseen, Hearing, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.67, Penguin

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• Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.

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  Mother, Father, Ideas

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• Siempre había supuesto que teníamos un acuerdo tácito sobre estas cosas: que ella no quería decir realmente que yo fuera un fracasado, y que yo quería decir realmente que intentaría respetar más sus opiniones. Pero escuchar a la tía Lin esta noche me recuerda una vez más: Mi madre y yo nunca nos entendimos. Tradujimos los significados de la otra y yo parecía oír menos de lo que se decía, mientras que mi madre oía más. Sin duda le dijo a la tía Lin que yo iba a volver a la universidad para doctorarme.

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  Mother, School, Mean

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• You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Mente

  Amy Tan (2012). “Saving Fish From Drowning”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

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  Dust, Gold, Vagabonds

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.18, Penguin

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• Chaos is the penance for leisure.

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  Penance, Leisure, Chaos

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.17, Penguin

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• The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

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  Reading, Influence, Catchers

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

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• I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

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  Mother, Eye, Light

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

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