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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
Arthur Golden
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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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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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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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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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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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 stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
Arthur Golden
Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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