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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
Arthur Golden
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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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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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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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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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At the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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