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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: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Chattanooga
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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 don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
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At the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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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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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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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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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 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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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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