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

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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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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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
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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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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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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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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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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 geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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