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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
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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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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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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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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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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Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
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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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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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