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There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.
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If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
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I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)
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I've always been a magnet for guilt.
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I did not lose myself all at once.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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