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Famous Amy Tan Quotes
“I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.”
“I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.”
“I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.”
“Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.”
“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
“Chaos is the penance for leisure.”
“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
“But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo”
“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei”
“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”
“To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei”
“After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?”