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"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
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"Never do what the devil provokes you to do."
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"If you are determined to live life to the full, if you are determined to conquer in life, if you are determined to win in life, if you are determined to soar in life, you must not shy away from this particular demand. Life demands death."
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"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
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"It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger."
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"Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun."
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"In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose."
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"To cultivate bravery and courage, Do It Scared. Being scared is a precursor to bravery, otherwise, it wouldn't be bravery, would it? Mustering the courage to stretch beyond your familiar territory is a rewarding act in itself."
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"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."
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"When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves."
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"When you overcome fear, you will be strengthened by faith."
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"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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"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."
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"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
Cultural
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
Writing
"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
"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
"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."
Luck
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