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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Might
Like
Drown
Desperate
Seemed
Save
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Someone

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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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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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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
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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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We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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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 woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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