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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: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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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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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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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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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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A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
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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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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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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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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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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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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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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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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
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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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