I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.
("Memoirs of a Geisha")
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How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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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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I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
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