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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
Water
Away
Earth
Geisha
Even
Wash
Iron
Destroy
Fire
Powerful

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