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Hanya Yanagihara
"There are times I wish I didn't have a job, even though I love my job: I get to work with interesting, eccentric colleagues and equally interesting and eccentric subject matter, both of which are rarities. But, naturally, I would treasure having more freedom someday: of time and of movement. Will I always have a full-time job? I don't know. But I do know that I need to spend at least part of my week in an office, with other people." --
Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
Hanya Yanagihara
#People Quotes
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#Office Quotes
“The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.”
“Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.”
“I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.”
“It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.”
Source : "Can Social Networks Cure Disease? Part I" by Mark Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2012.
“Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.”
“If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.”
“I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.”