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Memoirs of a Geisha 2005

Hatsumomo: How much longer is this bidding going to take? Beside who wants a plum when someone has already had a bite?[takes a bite out of the plum]

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 read

Mameha: [explaining sex to Sayuri] Every once in a while, a mans eel likes to visit a womans... cave.Sayuri Nitta: Yes, I know.Mameha: You do?Sayuri Nitta: I live with Hatsumomo.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 sex

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

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 art

Sayuri Narration: The heart dies a slow death. Shedding each hope like leaves, until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 hope

Chairman: We must not expect happiness, Sayuri. It is not something we deserve. When life goes well, it is a sudden gift; it cannot last forever...

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 life

Sayuri Narration: At the temple, there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read Loss, only feel it.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 words

Sayuri Nitta: 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.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 art

Sayuri Narration: You cannot say to the sun, More sun. Or to the rain, Less rain. To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 happiness

Hatsumomo: [suggesting that Mameha used immoral methods to gain Sayuri the lead role in the dances] What did Mameha do, speak with the Director in *private*?Sayuri Nitta: Not *all* geisha use that kind of currency.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 dance

Sayuri Narration: A story like mine should never be told. For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile. Without its mysteries it cannot survive. I certainly wasnt born to the life of a geisha. Like so much in my strange life, I was carried there by the current.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 life

Sayuri Nitta: [anguish] I want a life that is mine!

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 life

The Baron: [after Sayuri discovers the teapot she is pouring from is empty] Im sure if there was one drop left in that pot, Sayuri would have gotten it out![other male patrons laugh]

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 tea

Chairman: Kindness we receive in our lives is not always enough.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 kindness

Hatsumomo: [slaps Sayuri roughly] I shall destroy you...

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 you

Mameha: Now rise.[Sayuri rises]Mameha: Not like a horse.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005

Nobu: [to Sayuri] Cant you see that I want you for myself? You have ruined me! Before we met I was a disciplined man.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 self

[referring to Chiyo]Hatsumomo: A pity. She still stinks of fish.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005

Sayuri Narration: If your honorable sister tells you to cut your leg, you cut your leg.

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005 honor

Sayuri Nitta: I am not worthless!

— Memoirs of a Geisha 2005

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