Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

Hanya Yanagihara

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

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• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

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• Tone can be as important as text.

  

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• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

  

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• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
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• I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

  

  Adam Garcia
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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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • History
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• Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.

  

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• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

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• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

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  • Dance
  • Yoga
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• I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Leading

• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Like
  • First
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• If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Why
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• I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

  

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• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

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• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

  

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  • Long
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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  

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  • Life
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• I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

  

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• Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.

  

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• Before Turner there was no fog in London.

  

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  • London
  • Fog
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• Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Party
  • Never
  • Friendship