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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: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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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 will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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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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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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