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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Chattanooga
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
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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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