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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
Arthur Golden
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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Chattanooga
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
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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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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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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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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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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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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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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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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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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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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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]
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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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