Quotes by Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden

A geisha has studied a man’s moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

Geisha

Men

Mood

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn’t simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

Cat

Fool

Wish

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

Beautiful

Looks

Tree

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

Beast

Dangerous

Wounded

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

Crowds

Empty

Girl

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.

Leaving

Men

Wall

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.

Bad Day

Essence

Good Day

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides – man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

Men

Past

Writing

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.

Death

Loss

Three

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.

Life

Long

Rocks

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Agreement

Bad Day

Barren

Beast

Beautiful

Bridges

Cat

Children

Choices

Confidence

Crowds

Dancer

Dangerous

Darkness

Daughter

Death

Desperate

Destiny

Differences

Difficulty

Divorce

Doe

Dream

Empty

Ends

Essence

Evening

Excitement

Eye

Facts

Father

Feeling Sad

Feelings

Fighting

Fire

Flower

Fool

Found

Geisha

Girl

Giving

Gone Away

Good Day

Grateful

Grief

Grieving

Growing

Grows

Heart

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Quotes by Arthur Golden

Arthur Golden

A geisha has studied a man’s moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn’t simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

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.

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.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides – man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

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.

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.

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