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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Life
Struggle
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Party
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Nothing
Struggling
Sometimes
Evening
Always
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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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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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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What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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]
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A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
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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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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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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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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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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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