It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
Amy TanI have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Amy TanIt's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
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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.
Amy TanYour tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
Amy TanStichwörter: sorrow tears strength-through-adversity
Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.
Amy TanAuntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm out and she was the only one who left with an empty hand.
Amy TanStichwörter: love charity forgiving
I was greedy, she warned, and could not fill my heart with enough pleasure, my stomach with enough contentment, my body with enough sleep. I was like a rice basket with a rat hole at the bottom, and thus could not be satisfied and overflow, nor could I be filled. I would never know the full depth and breadth of love, beauty, or happiness. She said it like a curse.
Amy TanI 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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