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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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World
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Memoir

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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
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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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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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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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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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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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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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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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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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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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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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 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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Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
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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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