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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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Personal Development
"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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Personal Development
"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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Personal Development
"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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Personal Development
"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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Personal Development
"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."
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Personal Development
"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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Personal Development
"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"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
"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 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
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
Cultural
"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
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