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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
Life
Noisy
Passings
Excitement
Passing
Saws

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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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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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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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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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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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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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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 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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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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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