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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
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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 will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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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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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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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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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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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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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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 had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
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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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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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