Arthur Golden Quotes

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

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

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. - Arthur Golden

We can never flee the misery that is within us. - Arthur Golden

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

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

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. - Arthur Golden

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

It's worth bearing in mind that Hamlet makes poor Danish history and that Lawrence of Arabia grossly oversimplifies the politics and cultures of the Middle East. I don't mean to say that drama should never concern itself with factual accuracy, only that a work of art must be judged by a higher standard. - Arthur Golden

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

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