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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

Arthur Golden

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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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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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I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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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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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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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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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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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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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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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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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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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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I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.
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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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