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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
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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 never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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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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Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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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 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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