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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: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Noisy
Passings
Excitement
Passing
Saws
Life

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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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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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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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Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
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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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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
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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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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
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I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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