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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Worn
Stone
Stones
Rain
Enough
Even

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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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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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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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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save 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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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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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 all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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