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"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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"Embody the character of the kingdom and it will manifest."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
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"Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort."
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"Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow."
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"Your personal integrity, defined as being honest and having strong moral principles, communicates whether (or not) you can be trusted."
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"Failures make character, not success."
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"Words let you know what is in someone's mind, deeds let you know what is in someone's heart, and character lets you know what is in someone's soul."
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"The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters!"
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"Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"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
"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
"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."
Work
"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
"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
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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