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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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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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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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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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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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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 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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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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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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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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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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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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