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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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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Water
Personalities
Lives
Carries
Carrie
Landscape
Pick
Picks
Flow
Personality

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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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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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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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