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Amy Tan ist eine chinesischstämmige amerikanische Schriftstellerin und gehört zu den führenden Vertreterinnen der zeitgenössischen chinesisch-amerikanischen Literatur. Tan schreibt in ihren Werken über die Begegnung der traditionell chinesischen mit den amerikanischen Sitten. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Februar 1952  •  Andere Namen Amy Tanová
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“You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Quelle: The Joy Luck Club

“I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”

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Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Quelle: The Hundred Secret Senses

“For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”

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Amy Tan

“If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me.
-Ying Ying”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.”

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Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

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“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.”

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Amy Tan

“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”

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Amy Tan

“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.”

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Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Quelle: The Kitchen God's Wife

“how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?”

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Amy Tan

“What is the past but what we choose to remember?”

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Amy Tan buch The Bonesetter's Daughter

Variante: After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
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“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

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Amy Tan buch The Bonesetter's Daughter

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“Chaos is the penance for leisure.”

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Amy Tan buch The Bonesetter's Daughter

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“There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying.
Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”

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Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Quelle: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 9
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“When you lose your face…, it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Quelle: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 3, pg. 59

“We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.”

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Amy Tan buch The Bonesetter's Daughter

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“If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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“Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Quelle: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 142

“If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

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