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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."
"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."
"The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is."
"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."
"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
"In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions."
Explore more quotes by Amy Tan
"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."
"I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese."
"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"
"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"
"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
"I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private."
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