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Sadness was a very heavy thing.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Sadness
Heavy
Thing

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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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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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