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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.

Arthur Golden

Beautiful, Swans, Tree

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.103, Random House

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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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Struggle, Worry, Effort

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.9, Random House

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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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Differences, People, Difficulty

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.105, Random House

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Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.

Arthur Golden

Long, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

Arthur Golden

Eye, Light, Darkness

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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?

Arthur Golden

Wish, Lessons, May

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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.

Arthur Golden

Two, Facts, Week

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A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

Arthur Golden

Men, Mood, Geisha

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Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Arthur Golden

Precious Things

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And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

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Feelings, Body, Might

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

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I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

Arthur Golden

Said, Helpless

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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.

Arthur Golden

Grief, Sadness, Grieving

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The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

Arthur Golden

Fishes, Guts, Ifs

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.24, Random House

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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Arthur Golden

Wall, Men, Leaving

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.111, Random House

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of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

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Pace, Pace Of Change, Courses

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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.

Arthur Golden

Party, Struggle, Destiny

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.294, Random House

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We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Arthur Golden

Growing, Way, Remarkable

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.268, Random House

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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Arthur Golden

Thinking, World, Geisha

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Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

Arthur Golden

Writing, Simple, Men

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

Arthur Golden

Records, World, Memoir

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From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Arthur Golden

Men, Giving, Dancer

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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.

Arthur Golden

Sadness, Cutting, Apples

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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

Arthur Golden

Mother, Father, School

Random House Author Q&A. From the Trade Paperback edition, www.randomhouse.com.

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We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Arthur Golden

Misery, Miserable People, Miserable

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No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

Arthur Golden

Memoir, Wells, Knows

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