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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.

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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Tangible
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Essence
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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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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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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before 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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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