Arthur Golden Quotes

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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…
• Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very…
• Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.
• 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…
• I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
• When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
• 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…
• I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
• Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as…
• Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
• Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
• Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
• We can never flee the misery that is within us.
• I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
• 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…
• If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a…
• I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open…
• 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…
• From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and…
• If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

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