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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?
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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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 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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
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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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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
Arthur Golden
