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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
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Chattanooga
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
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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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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 could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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