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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Acts
Fool
Woman
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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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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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A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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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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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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 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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I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.
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