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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
Novelist
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Chattanooga
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
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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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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
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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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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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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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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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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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