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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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"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."
"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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"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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