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It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

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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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When men go out, the women stay at home. And historically what has always happened is the Japanese men hire women to sit and kind of entertain them.

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Never give up for even rivers someday wash dams away.

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I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

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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.

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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.

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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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It's worth bearing in mind that Hamlet makes poor Danish history and that Lawrence of Arabia grossly oversimplifies the politics and cultures of the Middle East. I don't mean to say that drama should never concern itself with factual accuracy, only that a work of art must be judged by a higher standard.

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It's worth bearing in mind that Hamlet makes poor Danish history and that Lawrence of Arabia grossly oversimplifies the politics and cultures of the Middle East.

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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.

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What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

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I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

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We can never flee the misery that is within us.

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Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

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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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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

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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.

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Well, I'm working on something that has absolutely nothing to do with Japan. I finally got the book written on Japan that I wanted to write.

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