Mean Quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

8 Mean quotes by Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara’s eight short reflections on meanness reveal her narrative depth in a tight collection. The brief set offers a quick glimpse of her take on unkindness.

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I've never really understood the desire to be immortal myself. The idea of both wanting to live forever in some form and…

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When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely…

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I'm not sure a person ever really reveals the whole of himsels or herself to another person, and I'm not sure we…

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Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe…

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Health insurance, which is exceedingly difficult to secure as an individual in New York. Obamacare, while certainly better than nothing, is pretty…

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When you never leave the literary biosphere, you forget how few people actually read books, and that in turn makes you start…

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“Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.”

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When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about…

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“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better?”

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“But fairness is not the only, or even the most important, consideration in law: the law is not always fair. Contracts are not fair,…

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“I would hold him in my arms and wait to cross the street and would think how absurd it was that my child, that…

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“The easiest explanations are often the right ones.”

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“my father said the whole world seemed made of sound and nothing else.”

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“He cleaned so he wouldn't cut himself, because he was cutting himself so much that even he knew how crazy, how destructive he was…

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“There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to…

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The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand…

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“Sometimes I would have to take my glasses off simply so the world would smudge and recede for a moment and cease to seem…

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I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things is how…

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I have one friend to whom I've told more than I've ever told anyone, and yet there are significant territories I have and will…

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“If you keep trying to find everything, you’ll wind up with nothing. AMY:”

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