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

Amy Tan

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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Amy Tan

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Lebih baik jadi orang yang TIDAK TERLUPAKAN daripada orang yang MEMBOSANKAN -

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My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.

Amy Tan

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Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?

Amy Tan

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Chaos is the penance for leisure.

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I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left...

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Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

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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.

Amy Tan

Tags: language culture

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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.

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