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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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Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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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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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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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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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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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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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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