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Arthur Golden
American
Writer
Born:
Dec 6
,
1956
About
Anything
Culture
Man
Me
You
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William Arthur Ward
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 Golden
Adversity
Strong
Tears
Wind
Ourselves
Torn
See
Like
Cannot
Us
Really
Away
Things
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
Arthur Golden
Time
Writing
Mother
Thought
Reading
Met
Living
Kind
Geisha
About
Fellow
Because
Subject
Up
Ended
Same
Getting
Just
Same Time
Fiction
Interested
Japan
Fascinating
Whose
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
You
Hair
Though
Eat
Geisha
Like
Know
How
Done
Where
Wanted
Really
Your
Sleep
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
Morning
You
Will
Men
Expectation
Tea
Nice
About
Know
Read
Houses
Go
Quiet
Newspaper
Next
Next Morning
Evening
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
Arthur Golden
Culture
Geisha
Because
Anything
Confusing
Really
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
Character
Woman
Book
Herself
Recognize
About
Entirely
Invented
She
Read
Because
Anything
Which
Really
English
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
Arthur Golden
Had
Course
Within
Limits
Story
Certain
Keep
Plausible
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
Arthur Golden
Misery
Never
Within
Flee
Us
I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
Arthur Golden
Me
Before
Like
Up
Cannot
Held
Things
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
Arthur Golden
Speak
Pain
Think
Frankly
About
Longer
Until
Any
Enduring
Us
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