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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
Author
Wells
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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
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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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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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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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You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
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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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What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
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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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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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