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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Simple
Ever
Nothing
Life
Imagine

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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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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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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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