"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."

-- Amy Tan

#Mother Quotes #New Year Quotes #Years Quotes

“The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature”

Source : Henry Seidel Canby (1922). “Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism”
“To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country . . . if we don't, someone else will run our country.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.”
“I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen.”
“I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.”
“Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.”
“If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.”
“If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.”

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