You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort
Amy TanThat is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
Amy TanStichwörter: endings
The moving cliff gave us the feeling we had to look behind us to know what lay ahead.
Amy TanForever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.
Amy TanStichwörter: forever
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
Amy TanThe things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.
Amy TanIt's a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life.
Amy TanStichwörter: beautiful so-true-for-me
Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? 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.
Amy TanStichwörter: love morals faults
...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.
Amy Tan...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is the right amount, what is too much, and the kind that makes you want more of what is bad for you. A mother helps her baby flex her first feelings of pleasure. She teaches her when to later exercise restraint, or to take squealing joy in recognizing the fluttering leaves of the gingko tree, to sense a quieter but more profound satisfaction in chancing upon an everlasting pine. A mother enables you to realize that there are different levels of beauty and therein lie the sources of pleasure, some of which are popular and ordinary, and thus of brief value, and others of which are difficult and rare, and hence worth pursuing.
Amy TanStichwörter: beauty pleasure mothers
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