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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Geisha
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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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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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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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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.
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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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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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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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