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"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
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"I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine."
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"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."
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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
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"When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime."
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"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
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"Only cowards leave words unspoken."
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"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?"
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"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
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"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
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"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"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."
Work
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
Woman
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"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."
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