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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: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Destiny
Find
Needs
Every
Men
Teller
Chef
Hungry
Fortune

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's 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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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