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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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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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 worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
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