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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
Arthur Golden
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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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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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