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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
Bleak
Except
Future
Past
Nothing

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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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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save 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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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
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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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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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 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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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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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I've lived my life again just telling it to 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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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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