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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Like
Water
Hill
Force
Hills
Lives
Forces
Inspirational
Direction
Find
Lead
Going
Courses
Geisha
Something
Course
Splash
Life
Less
Flowing

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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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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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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
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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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I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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