Amy Tan Quotes

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Daniel Bryan looks like he doesn't want the attention, but he does. He acts like he doesn't want the notoriety, but he does.

Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

There's a dark side to everything.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

[Dwight Eisenhower is] a soldier who doesn't like or want war. It's like a whore who believes in chastity.