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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: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Think
Thinking
Sighed
Remember
Sometimes
Real
Things

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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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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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