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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Memoir
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Wells
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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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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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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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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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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Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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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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