Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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Birth: | 6th December, 1956 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist |
Arthur Golden is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha. He attended Harvard University and received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. In 1980, he earned an M.A. in Japanese history at Columbia University, and also learned Mandarin Chinese. After a summer at Peking University in Beijing, China, he worked in Tokyo. When he returned to the United States, he earned an M.A. in English at Boston University. He currently lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. After its release in 1997, Memoirs of a Geisha spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list. It has sold more than four million copies in English and has been translated into thirty-two languages around the world.
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