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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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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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