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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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
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I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
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There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for 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.
