Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...
("Memoirs of a Geisha")
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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they'd nearly drowned out everything else.Arthur Golden
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.
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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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This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
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If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
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Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
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