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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"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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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"There is no education like adversity."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
Courage
"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
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"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
"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
"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
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"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 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
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