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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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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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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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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
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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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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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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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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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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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My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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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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