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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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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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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 began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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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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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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