What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
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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.Arthur Golden
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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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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It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
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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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I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
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