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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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"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."
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"I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck."
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"Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose."
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"...luck is not to be coerced."
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"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."
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"It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life."
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"Dumb luck and flying by the seat of your pants can only get you so far in life."
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"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five."
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"I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky."
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"It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned."
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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
"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."
Work
"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
"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."
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
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