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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Memoir
Author
Wells
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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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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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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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
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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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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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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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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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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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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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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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