Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbi…

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