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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
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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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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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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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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
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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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