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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
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
World
Memoirist
Memoir
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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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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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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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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How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
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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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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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