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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: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Geisha
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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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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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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