Best Arthur Golden Quotations
- I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us. Course
- Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. Friendship
- I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued… All
- I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone… All
- You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. Desperate
- In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for… Along
- I've lived my life again just telling it to you. Funny
- My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else. Been
- I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it… Any
- Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not. Always Called
- After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. All
- At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. Beauty
- If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light… Adjust
- We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will… All
- A woman who acts like a fool is a fool. Acts
- We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not… Action
- It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish… Advantage
- I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. Beauty
- 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… Artist
- Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine. Imagine
- My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path. Carve
- As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to… American
- 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… Eat
- What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. Certain
- 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… Afterward
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