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Arthur Golden quotes: If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
Arthur Golden quotes: All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest up the hill only to learn that its All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest up the hill only to learn that its full of rocks.
Arthur Golden quotes: Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of. Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
Arthur Golden quotes: Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined. Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.
Arthur Golden quotes: Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
Arthur Golden quotes: Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
Arthur Golden quotes: Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. a Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. a
Arthur Golden quotes: He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there. He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.
Arthur Golden quotes: Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred. Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.
Arthur Golden quotes: But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path. But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
Arthur Golden quotes: 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 turtle 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 turtle
Arthur Golden quotes: Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine. Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
Arthur Golden quotes: Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment. Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.
Arthur Golden quotes: Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
Arthur Golden quotes: I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater as a blanket of snow. I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater as a blanket of snow.
Arthur Golden quotes: Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
Arthur Golden quotes: We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.
Arthur Golden quotes: I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me. I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.
Arthur Golden quotes: A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge. A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
Arthur Golden quotes: Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
Arthur Golden quotes: A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast. A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.
Arthur Golden quotes: He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Arthur Golden quotes: And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it. And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it.
Arthur Golden quotes: Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
Arthur Golden quotes: I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.
Arthur Golden quotes: It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening. It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.
Arthur Golden quotes: When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
Arthur Golden quotes: After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
Arthur Golden quotes: My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they'd nearly drowned out everything else. My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they'd nearly drowned out everything else.
Arthur Golden quotes: If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny. If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.
Arthur Golden quotes: We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
Arthur Golden quotes: We can never flee the misery that is within us. We can never flee the misery that is within us.
Arthur Golden quotes: 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 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?
Arthur Golden quotes: A woman who acts like a fool is a fool. A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
Arthur Golden quotes: The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive? The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive?
Arthur Golden quotes: If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened. If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
Arthur Golden quotes: Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived. Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
Arthur Golden quotes: When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
Arthur Golden quotes: Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
Arthur Golden quotes: Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew ... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew ... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound
Arthur Golden quotes: I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have. I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
Arthur Golden quotes: I've lived my life again just telling it to you. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
Arthur Golden quotes: A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
Arthur Golden quotes: Whatever our struggles,and whether we sink or swim,our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean Whatever our struggles,and whether we sink or swim,our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean
Arthur Golden quotes: We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
Arthur Golden quotes: Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry? Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
Arthur Golden quotes: Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
Arthur Golden quotes: My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all.
Arthur Golden quotes: The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish. The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
Arthur Golden quotes: Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
Arthur Golden quotes: It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
Arthur Golden quotes: Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past. Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
Arthur Golden quotes: A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
Arthur Golden quotes: Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them. Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.
Arthur Golden quotes: Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
Arthur Golden quotes: Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not. Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
Arthur Golden quotes: I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck. I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
Arthur Golden quotes: Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it
Arthur Golden quotes: Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
Arthur Golden quotes: If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
Arthur Golden quotes: And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall. And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
Arthur Golden quotes: What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
Arthur Golden quotes: All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty. All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.
Arthur Golden quotes: If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
Arthur Golden quotes: I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
Arthur Golden quotes: Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together ... Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together ...
Arthur Golden quotes: 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 all day long. 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 all day long.
Arthur Golden quotes: It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
Arthur Golden quotes: I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't. I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't.
Arthur Golden quotes: The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
Arthur Golden quotes: Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past. Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.
Arthur Golden quotes: I can tolerate his company for about half an hour. After that I am not responsible for the things I say! I can tolerate his company for about half an hour. After that I am not responsible for the things I say!
Arthur Golden quotes: Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
Arthur Golden quotes: Isn't there one thing I can ask of you that you won't disregard? ... You could just reply, "Yes, Baron," and be done with it.' Yes, Baron. Isn't there one thing I can ask of you that you won't disregard? ... You could just reply, "Yes, Baron," and be done with it.'
Yes, Baron.
Arthur Golden quotes: Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
Arthur Golden quotes: [The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body. [The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body.
Arthur Golden quotes: I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees. I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.
Arthur Golden quotes: A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
Arthur Golden quotes: You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
Arthur Golden quotes: 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 we really are. 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 we really are.
Arthur Golden quotes: Sadness was a very heavy thing. Sadness was a very heavy thing.
Arthur Golden quotes: Of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will. Of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.
Arthur Golden quotes: The very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket! The very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket!
Arthur Golden quotes: Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
Arthur Golden quotes: Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things. Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.
Arthur Golden quotes: This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely. This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
Arthur Golden quotes: No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself. No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
Arthur Golden quotes: Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely. Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
Arthur Golden quotes: Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
Arthur Golden quotes: The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside. The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.

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