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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Geisha
Kindness
None
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Much
World

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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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At the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
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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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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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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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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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