Arthur Golden Short Quotes

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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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When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

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Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

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Of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

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He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they'd nearly drowned out everything else.

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Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...

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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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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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If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

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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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Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

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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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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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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

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Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

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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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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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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

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This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

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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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If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

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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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