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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?

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Fortune
Destiny
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Needs
Every
Men
Teller
Chef
Hungry

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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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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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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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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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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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We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
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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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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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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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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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