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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
Nothing
Bleak
Except
Future
Past

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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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 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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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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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
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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 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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A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
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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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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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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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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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