Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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I love kids. My sister has four boys, and I'm obsessed with them.
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Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
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Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.
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Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.