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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?

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Fortune
Destiny
Find
Needs
Every
Men
Teller
Chef
Hungry

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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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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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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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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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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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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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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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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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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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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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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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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the 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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