Joy Luck Club Quotes & Sayings
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The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!
it is too beautiful to eat. — Amy Tan

I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me. — Amy Tan

Captain Christopher Phelan
1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
Cape Mapan
Crimea
June 1855
Dearest Christopher,
I can't write to you again.
I'm not who you think I am.
I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.
Come back, please come home and find me.
--[unsigned] — Lisa Kleypas

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable. — John Frankenheimer

Parents begin by loving their children; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. — Sol Stein

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction. — Amy Tan

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. — Amy Tan

All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side. — Kevin Kwan

Surely that gift - the gift of a world of human decency - is the one that all countries hunger for still. — Lois Lowry

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God. — William Penn

You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Even if I could live forever," she said to the baby, "I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason."
"But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well. — Amy Tan

I have always known a thing before it happens. — Amy Tan

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. — Amy Tan

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft. — Tobsha Learner

Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life. — Rajneesh

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate. — Amy Tan

I have one president at a time. I only work for you. — Richard M. Helms