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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Past
Nothing
Bleak
Except
Future

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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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 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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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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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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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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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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 don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
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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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