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• But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

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  Eye, Thinking, Two

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• My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

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  Feelings, Loud, Disgusting

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.404, Random House

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• I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

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  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.428, Random House

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• In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

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  Children, Taken, Doors

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• I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.

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  Mother, Memories, Ocean

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• I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

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  Men, Gone Away, People

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.427, Random House

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• You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

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  Morning, Nice, Men

  "A talk with Arthur Golden". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 23, 1999.

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• Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

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  Flower, One Day, Grows

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• Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

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  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "A talk with Arthur Golden". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 23, 1999.

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• I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

  Arthur Golden

  Geisha, Memories Of A Geisha

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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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  Life, Rocks, Long

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.34, Random House

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• All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

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  Girl, Crowds, Empty

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.376, Random House

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• A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

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  Cat, Wish, Fool

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