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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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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
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"He who hates vice hates men."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping."
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"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."
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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
"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
"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
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
Cultural
"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
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