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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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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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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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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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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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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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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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