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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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"Life is defined by time and seasons."
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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."
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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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"Hurry up, before there's no more night left."
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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."
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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."
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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."
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"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
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"Much rain wears the marble."
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"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"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
"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
Courage
"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
"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."
Time
"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?"
Hair
"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
"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
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