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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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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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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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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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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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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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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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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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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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