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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
"I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine."
"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
Explore more quotes by 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?"
"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."
"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 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."
"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."
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
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