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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

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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 woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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.
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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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