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Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
Arthur Golden
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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
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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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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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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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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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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