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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Life
Grateful
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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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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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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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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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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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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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 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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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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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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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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