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Amy Tan , nacida el 19 de febrero de 1952, es una escritora de Estados Unidos que explora las relaciones entre madres e hijas y lo que significa ser parte de la primera generación de asiáticos americanos. En 1993, la adaptación cinematográfica de su trabajo más popular, El club de la buena estrella, llegó a ser un éxito comercial. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. febrero 1952  •  Otros nombres Amy Tanová
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Frases célebres de Amy Tan

“Llevaba un hermoso vestido rojo, pero lo que vi era incluso más valioso. Yo era fuerte. Era pura. Albergaba en mi interior unos pensamientos genuinos que nadie podría arrebatarme jamás. Yo era como el viento.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

“Vergüenza es caerte cuando nadie empuja.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

“Así es como se cura una herida: empieza a cerrarse sobre sí misma, a proteger aquello que tanto duele, y, una vez cerrada, ya no se ve lo que hay debajo, aquello que provocaba el dolor.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

“¿Acaso el odio no es un simple resultado del amor herido?”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

“Nadie, ni yo ni nadie, puede andar este camino por ti. Habrás de recorrerlo tú solo. No está lejos; lo tienes a tu alcance. Tal vez estás en él desde que naciste, sin saberlo. Tal vez está en todas partes: en el mar y en la tierra.”

Amy Tan

El valle del asombro

“Sólo recuerdas lo que quieres recordar. Sólo sabes lo que tu corazón te permite saber.”

Amy Tan libro Saving Fish from Drowning

Saving Fish from Drowning

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“Si el amor persiste pese al dolor de las diferencias, hay que preservarlo como una joya rara”

Amy Tan libro The Valley of Amazement

The Valley of Amazement

“Entonces debes enseñarle esta misma lección a mi hija. Cómo perder la inocencia pero no la esperanza. Cómo reír eternamente.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

“¿Qué es el pasado si no aquello que elegimos recordar?”

Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter

The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Ahora sabes por qué razón es inútil llorar. Tus lágrimas no se llevan tus penas, sino que alimentan la alegría de otros. Por eso has de aprender a tragártelas.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

“Una persona ha de reflexionar sobre el origen de las cosas. Cada comienzo conduce a un fin determinado.”

Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter

The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Siempre que estoy con mi madre, siento como si tuviera que pasar todo el tiempo evitando minas terrestres.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Texto original en inglés: «Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.»
Fuente: Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God's Wife. Editorial Penguin, 2006. ISBN 978-11-0100-715-0.
Fuente: Capítulo I, The shop of the gods, de The Kitchen God's Wife.

“Mi padre me ha pedido que ocupe la cuarta esquina en el Club de la Buena Estrella, sustituyendo a mi madre, cuyo puesto ante la mesa de mah jong está vacío desde que falleció hace un par de meses. Mi padre cree que la mataron sus propios pensamientos.”

Amy Tan

Fuente: Comienzo del capítulo I del Club de la Buena Estrella.

“Mi madre siempre creyó que mi abuela había sido obligada a convertirse en cuarta esposa de un poderoso cacique, un hombre al que no amaba y que se suicidó por la vergüenza que llegó a sentir a raíz de ello. Si le hubieran dicho que en realidad era una cortesana, por cualquier circunstancia, por cualquier razón, ¿qué me hubiera contado? Si yo se lo hubiera planteado, creo que lo habría negado.”

Amy Tan

Hablando de la abuela, sobre la que escribió el libro El valle del asombro.

“En el transcurso de los años me contó siempre la misma historia, con excepción del final, cada vez más oscuro, que arrojaba largas sombras sobre su vida, y, finalmente, también sobre la mía.”

Amy Tan

Se refiere a la historia sobre su vida en China que la madre contaba a la hija.
Fuente: Capítulo I del Club de la Buena Estrella.

“Consumían opio, me dijeron que era una persona callada, pero que tenía un temperamento violento, que era la favorita, que disponía de la mejor habitación, no sufría la posición inferior que se le suponía a una cuarta esposa.”

Amy Tan

Hablando de la abuela, sobre la que escribió el libro El valle del asombro.

Amy Tan: Frases en inglés

“But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.”

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Amy Tan libro The Bonesetter's Daughter

Fuente: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.”

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Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Fuente: The Hundred Secret Senses

“You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?”

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Amy Tan libro Saving Fish from Drowning

Fuente: Saving Fish from Drowning

“Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club

“Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club

“When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?”

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Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Fuente: The Hundred Secret Senses

“Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club (1989)

“I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 7, pg. 121

“I don't feel the need to be a role model, it's just something that's been thrust upon me. Teachers and a lot of Asian-American organizations, for example, say to me, "We need you to come and speak to us because you're a role model."… Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. Someone who writes fiction is not necessarily writing a depiction of any generalized group, they're writing a very specific story.”

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Amy Tan

SALON Interview (1995)

“Now that I'm angry at Harold, it's hard to remember what was so remarkable about him.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 9, pg. 155

“After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 3, pg. 63

“I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 15, pg. 254

“For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 4, pg. 81

“External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.”

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Amy Tan

American Acheivement interview (1996)

“One relative felt that the story of my grandmother should not have been revealed. My grandmother was the woman (in The Kitchen God's Wife) who had been raped, forced to be a concubine, and finally killed herself. My mother, though, got equally angry at the relative and said, "For so many years, I carried this shame on my back, and my mother suffered, because she couldn't say anything to anybody." And she said, "It's not too late; tell the world, tell the world what happened to her."”

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Amy Tan

And I take her mandate to be the one that is in my heart, the one that I should follow.
SALON Interview (1995)

“It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 14, pg. 247

“On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 13, pg. 240

“I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child…”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 10, pg. 183

“That was the night, in the kitchen, that I realized I was no better than who I was… And I no longer felt angry at Waverly. I felt tired and foolish, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind and discover there was no one there.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 12, pg. 207

“You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.”

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Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Fuente: The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), p. 387

“Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 16, pg. 283

“I was writing for businesses. I think my mother was a little skeptical in the beginning, but fortunately, as a free-lance writer I was successful almost immediately. And so she was very proud, because she measured success in terms of money, which is what I started to do as well. My goal then, became to increase the amount of money that I made each month. Not simply each year, but each month — I mean, talk about pressure — to have more billable hours each month. So that by the end of my third year of being a free-lance writer, I was billing 90 hours a week. I had no time to sleep. I had no life. People said I was crazy, that I was a workaholic. And I couldn't understand how it was that I had these wonderful clients, and I was making all this money, and I wasn't happy and I didn't feel successful. That's when I started to write fiction.”

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Amy Tan

American Acheivement interview (1996)

“I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 134

“Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense?”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 15, pg. 259

“My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 7, pg. 130

“Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 1, pg. 26

“Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 2, pg. 48

“I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.”

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Fuente: The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 8, pg. 154

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