cliche

mother

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

screenwriter

novelist

essayist

children's writer

innovator in the field of

essay

religion

Baptist

is static, the emotion behind them long spent.

Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.

is the first sound to become a word. ‘Ma’, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast and the only word the baby needed for a long time. The mother then decided that this utterance, this word uttered by the baby would be her name, ‘ma’, and she began to speak too.

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?.. I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire that meant 'Flee.' The sound of a tiger about to pounce. Who would worry about these things? And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. For a long time, that was the only word the baby needed. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

Amy Tan

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