Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

Hanya Yanagihara

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• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

  

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• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature