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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
Passings
Excitement
Passing
Saws
Life
Noisy

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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
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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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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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How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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 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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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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