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

Arthur Golden

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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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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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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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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the 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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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 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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.
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We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
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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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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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