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"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
"You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"At least I'm not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring."
"Throw a warrior to the wolves and he'll return a conqueror."
"Fear makes people speechless."
"When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence."
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"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."
"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?"
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
"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."
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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