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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Geisha
Blooms
Moods
Studied
Mood
Seasons
Men

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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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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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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.
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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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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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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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