"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person."

-- Amy Tan

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“My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.”
“And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.”
“If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.”
“The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.”
“We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.”
“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.”

Source : Journal entry for April 15, 1937. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 14, 1993.
“Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!”
“The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.”

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