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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: 67
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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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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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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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