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

~Arthur Golden

Topics: Away Dams Even Give Never Never Give Up Rivers Someday Up Wash

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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

Topics: Adversity Away Cannot Like Ourselves Really See Strong Tears Things Torn Us Wind

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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.

~Arthur Golden

Topics: Become Even Girl Hair Hopes Like Look Many Old Old Women Ornament Silly Them Too Want Wear Wearing Women

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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.

~Arthur Golden

Topics: Again Away Decided Details Dry Found Historical People Person Right Things Third Throw Time Were Written

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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.

~Arthur Golden

Topics: About Evening Expectation Go Houses Know Men Morning Newspaper Next Next Morning Nice Quiet Read Tea Will You

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We can never flee the misery that is within us.

~Arthur Golden

Topics: Flee Misery Never Us Within

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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.

~Arthur Golden

Topics: About Because Ended Fascinating Fellow Fiction Geisha Getting Interested Japan Just Kind Living Met Mother Reading Same Same Time Subject Thought Time Up Whose Writing

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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?

~Arthur Golden

Topics: Done Eat Geisha Hair How Know Like Really Sleep Though Wanted Where You Your

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

~Arthur Golden

Topics: Anything Because Confusing Culture Geisha Really

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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.

~Arthur Golden

Topics: About Anything Because Book Character English Entirely Herself Invented Read Really Recognize She Which Woman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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