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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Real
Things
Think
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Sighed
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Sometimes

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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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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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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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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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She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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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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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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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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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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