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"We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff."
"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."
"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars."
"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Amy Tan
"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
"I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life."
"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."
"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."
"We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour."
"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."
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