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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Always
Geisha
Called
Beautiful
Even

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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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