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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Destiny
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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