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

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. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

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We can never flee the misery that is within us.

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

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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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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

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Arthur Golden

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