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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
World
Goodness
Beauty
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Needs
Every
Time
Think
Geisha
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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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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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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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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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 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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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