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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
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
— Arthur Golden
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
He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.
— Arthur Golden
Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.
— Arthur Golden
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
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
Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.
— Arthur Golden
Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.
— Arthur Golden
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
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
— Arthur Golden
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
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
— Arthur Golden
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
— Arthur Golden
A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.
— Arthur Golden
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
— Arthur Golden
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
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
— Arthur Golden
I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.
— Arthur Golden
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
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
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they'd nearly drowned out everything else.
— Arthur Golden
If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.
— Arthur Golden
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
— Arthur Golden
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
— Arthur Golden
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
A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
— Arthur Golden
The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive?
— Arthur Golden
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
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
— Arthur Golden
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
— Arthur Golden
Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
— Arthur Golden
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
I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
— Arthur Golden
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
— Arthur Golden
Whatever our struggles,and whether we sink or swim,our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean
— Arthur Golden
Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!
— Arthur Frommer
I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
— Arthur Golden
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
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
— Arthur Golden
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
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
— Arthur Golden
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
— Arthur Golden
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
— Arthur Golden
Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
— Arthur Golden
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
— Arthur Golden
Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
— Arthur Golden
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
— Arthur Golden
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
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
— Arthur Golden
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
— Arthur Golden
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
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
— Arthur Golden
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
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
— Arthur Golden
I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
— Arthur Golden
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together ...
— Arthur Golden
THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
— Arthur Golden
I learned that year that nothing is so unpredictable as who will survive a war and who won't.
— Arthur Golden
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
— Arthur Golden
Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.
— Arthur Golden
I can tolerate his company for about half an hour. After that I am not responsible for the things I say!
— Arthur Golden
Of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.
— Arthur Golden
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
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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— Arthur Golden
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
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
— Arthur Golden
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
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
— Arthur Golden
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
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
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
— Arthur Golden
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
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
— Arthur Golden
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
— Arthur Golden
Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
— Arthur Golden
The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.
— Arthur Golden