Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden
Arthur Goldenis an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
moving fighting use
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 fighting the currents, but moving with them.
beautiful men long
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
inspirational success fear
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
layers onions cry
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
fear water stones
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
mother father school
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 father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
jealousy passion hatred
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
watches your-future shows
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
death loss three
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 cannot read loss, only feel it.
girl stupid silly
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
believe people forever
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
real thinking remember
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
dream adversity world
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
sad trying misery
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.