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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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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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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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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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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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