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
wish lessons may
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
two facts week
Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
eels sweat doctors
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
water personality landscape
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
mushrooms two lovely
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...
rain years suffering
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.
hope heart one-day
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
beast dangerous wounded
A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.
pace pace-of-change convinced
of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.
eye thinking two
But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.
sight luck wish
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
life rocks 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.
misery miserable-people miserable
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
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.