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Amy Tan

"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

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Donna Grant

"Your burdens are perfectly measured and gifted to you according to your resistance."

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Donna Grant

"The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego."

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Donna Grant

"We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff."

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Donna Grant

"Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things."

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Donna Grant

"Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully."

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Donna Grant

"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."

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Donna Grant

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

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Donna Grant

"There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence."

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Donna Grant

"Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt."

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Donna Grant

"The dreadful burden of having nothing to do."

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Amy Tan
"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.'"

Thought

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Amy Tan
"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."

Writing

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Amy Tan
"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."

Family

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Amy Tan
"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

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Amy Tan
"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

Burden

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Amy Tan
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."

Life

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Amy Tan
"I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."

Fear

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Amy Tan
"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."

Success

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Amy Tan
"I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes."

Family

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Amy Tan
"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

Success

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