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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
People
Difficulty
Telling
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Differences
Simply
Heard
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Something

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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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