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"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
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"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."
"Life begins at the edge of your fears."
"Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear."
"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."
"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."
"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
Explore more quotes by Arthur Golden
"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."
"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."
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
"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."
"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."
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."
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