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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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"We could use some good luck. That doesn't mean we'll get it."
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"Luck always favors those who are bold."
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"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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"Luck is a dance of possibilities and opportunities."
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"Make your own luck, and then share it with others."
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"Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler."
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"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent."
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"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well."
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"I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on."
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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."
Man
"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
"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."
Luck
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
Writing
"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
Courage
"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"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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