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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]
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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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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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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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?
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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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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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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