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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
Imagine
Simple
Ever
Nothing
Life

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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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At the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
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Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
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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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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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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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We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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