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ARM's partnership with Grace is an important addition to our continued commitment and support for ou...
JUN TAN
We spend our lives trying to find, this abstract being that we can call “mine”. We lose ourselve...
MARYALLE TAN
Almost every month we have 20 to 30 patients needing a recovery room.
AMY TAN
My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I th...
SHAUN TAN
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
AMY TAN
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I ha...
AMY TAN
Chaos is the penance for leisure.
AMY TAN
That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurti...
AMY TAN
Over and over again, like clockwork, we see the human race present a remarkable talent all throughou...
MARYALLE TAN
Have you ever wondered why Cinderella's stepmother was bitter and greedy? Have you ever wondered why...
MARYALLE TAN
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word, ... but we have only one shot to get it right in...
AMY TAN
I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to ...
AMY TAN
Through the outreach that I have done, through platforms, I hope to unify Singaporeans because at th...
TONY TAN
There's still a very positive yield story for Indonesia. There's been strong buying of bonds and tha...
CATHERINE TAN
We have developed our own approach towards rehabilitating people, involving psychological rehabilita...
TONY TAN
What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love.
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AMY TAN
What is the past but what we choose to remember?
AMY TAN
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?
AMY TAN
The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better out...
TONY TAN
I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.
TAN REDDING
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finis...
AMY TAN
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
AMY TAN
Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing d...
AMY TAN