"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."

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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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"We can never flee the misery that is within us."

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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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"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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"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."

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"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."

Creativity

"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."

Man

"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

"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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