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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Bring
Since
Child
Geisha
Taken
Bridge
Children
Bridges
Every
Closer
Step
Steps

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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 never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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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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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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