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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Noisy
Passings
Excitement
Passing
Saws
Life

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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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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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 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 mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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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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