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Arthur Golden

"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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"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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"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."
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"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."
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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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"You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper."
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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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"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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"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
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"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
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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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