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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
Become
Geisha
Choice
Choices
Happy
Lives

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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 in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
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By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
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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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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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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?
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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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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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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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