Arthur Golden Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”
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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 GoldenSource : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.
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“Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.”
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“I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.”
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“I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
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“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
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“When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.”
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“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
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“If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”
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“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.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.106, Random House
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“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.”
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“Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”
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“It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”
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“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
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“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.”
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“Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.”
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“Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.427, Random House
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“Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.”
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“We can never flee the misery that is within us.”
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“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.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House
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“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.370, Random House
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“Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.”
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“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”
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“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
-- Arthur GoldenSource : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.
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“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
-- Arthur Golden
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