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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
Chef
Hungry
Fortune
Destiny
Find
Needs
Every
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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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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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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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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How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
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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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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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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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