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Sadness was a very heavy thing.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Heavy
Thing
Sadness

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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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