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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Even
Wash
Iron
Destroy
Fire
Powerful
Water
Away
Earth
Geisha

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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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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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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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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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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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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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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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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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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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