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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
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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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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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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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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