Arthur Golden Quotes

• 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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• Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

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• Of course, a sign doesn’t mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

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

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• He was like a song i’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

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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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• What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

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• What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

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• We can never flee the misery that is within us.

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• This time all the historical details and things were right. But I’d written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.

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• This character’s entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn’t recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn’t read, because she doesn’t read English.

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• Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

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• Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

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• It is confusing, because in this culture we really don’t have anything that corresponds to geisha.

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• I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

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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.

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• I don’t think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

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

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• 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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• 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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Birth:	6th December, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

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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