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Arthur Golden

"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 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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"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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"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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"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
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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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"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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