American - Writer | December 6, 1956 -
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. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
Arthur Golden
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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We can never flee the misery that is within us.
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Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
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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.
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