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"Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional."
"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."
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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
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