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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Destroy
Fire
Powerful
Water
Away
Earth
Geisha
Even
Wash
Iron

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I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.
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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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