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
mother turtles agreement
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
sadness cutting apples
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
men giving dancer
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
wells memoir knows
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
wall men leaving
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.
guts fishes corridors
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
cat wish fool
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
girl prettiest
The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.
sadness heavy-things heavy
Sadness was a very heavy thing.
jealousy passion hatred
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
past bleak
Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
feelings tears tables
My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
world records memoir
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
writing simple men
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.