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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Children, Taken, Bridges

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. December 6, 2005.

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Hope, Heart, One Day

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. December 6, 2005.

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• At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

  Arthur Golden

  Kind, Painful, Melancholy

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Thinking, Mind, Swallowing

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Giving, Dancer, Childhood

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• We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

  Arthur Golden

  Kindness, World, Should

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• An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

  Arthur Golden

  Believe, People, Forever

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• Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

  Arthur Golden

  Past, Bleak

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.345, Random House

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• A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

  Arthur Golden

  Fool

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• Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

  Arthur Golden

  Mean, Memories Of A Geisha, Courses

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Daughter, Kindness, Father

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.110, Random House

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• Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Stones, Enough

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House

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• When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

  Arthur Golden

  Divorce, Men, Wife

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Years, Suffering

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House

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• Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

  Arthur Golden

  Ocean, Struggle, Our World

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• Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

  Arthur Golden

  Life Is Like, Sometimes, Odd

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Writing, Past, Men

  "Author Q & A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.randomhouse.com.

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• Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

  Arthur Golden

  Jealousy, Passion, Hatred

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Choices, Want, Geisha

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.409, Random House

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• Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Mean, Boys

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• You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

  Arthur Golden

  Might, Like You, Desperate

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• Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

  Arthur Golden

  Doctors, Eels, Sweat

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.283, Random House

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• This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

  Arthur Golden

  Dream, Fire, Doe

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Artist, Deep Water

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting.

  Arthur Golden

  Sex, Nice, Home

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