"We can never flee the misery that is within us."

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"We can never flee the misery that is within us."

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"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."

Adversity

"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."

Character

"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."

Time

"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

"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."

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"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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"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."

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