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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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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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Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
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Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
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