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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.

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  Ocean, Struggle, Our World

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

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  Fool

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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

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  Life Is Like, Sometimes, Odd

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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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  Choices, Want, Geisha

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

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

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  Jealousy, Passion, Hatred

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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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  Writing, Past, Men

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

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

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  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.

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  Rain, Years, Suffering

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

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• Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

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  Beautiful, Geisha, Ifs

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• A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

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  Beast, Dangerous, Wounded

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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.

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  Sex, Nice, Home

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

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  Doctors, Eels, Sweat

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

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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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  Sight, Luck, Wish

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

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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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  Suits You, Water, Personality

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.125, Random House

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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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  Onions, Layers, Cry

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

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  Mean, Memories Of A Geisha, Courses

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• Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

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  Powerful, Fire, Iron

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

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• Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

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  Saws, Excitement, Passing

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• I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.

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  Sleep, Men, Elderly

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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.

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  Daughter, Kindness, Father

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

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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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  Grateful, Evening, Ends

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.113, Random House

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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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  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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• It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!

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  Believe, Fighting, Water

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• A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

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  Beautiful, Tree, Looks

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• Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.

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  Hands, Long, Missing

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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