Hisaye Yamamoto was an American author who was born on August 23 of 1921 and died on January 30 of 2011. She was mostly known for the short story collection Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, which were published in 1988.
She was known for confronting issues that the Japanese Immigrants faced after moving to America, the disconnect between the first and second-generation immigration along with how women have a hard time in this society.
Best Quotes By Hisaye Yamamoto
Here are some of the best quotes by Hisaye Yamamoto:
- I’m praying for a misdemeanor – Author: Bobby Bowden
- That’s the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music. – Author: Frances Stark
- It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints. – Author: William James
- I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history’s repeating itself on many different counts. You don’t get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high. – Author: Benjamin Graham
- I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion – or an itch. – Author: Hisaye Yamamoto
- She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying “Young Lady” after every sentence. – Author: Stephen Chbosky
- I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts. – Author: Barry Bostwick
- I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change. – Author: Karen Marie Moning
- The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it. – Author: Eden Phillpotts
- Don’t ask me what it means; ask me how it felt. – Author: Jill Telford
- I think that it would be hard to find a family that didn’t have a secret in it somewhere, and sometimes we know about them, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we have an inkling that there’s something hidden, but I think that it touches everybody’s life. – Author: Kim Edwards
- Don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo’ young girl days to spend wid me. – Author: Zora Neale Hurston
- I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud. – Author: Carol Loomis
- I mean, I’m married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything – funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits. – Author: Seal
- He glanced up. His eyes were pure white. Great, his brights were on, but nobody was driving. – Author: Ilona Andrews
- Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rhythm; the feeling of the rain on your face on sunny days. Words are cruel and spiteful sometimes, wise and loving at others. – Author: Chloe Thurlow
Best Quotes In Seventeen Syllables By Hisaye Yamamoto
Here are some of the best quotes in Seventeen Syllables by Hisaye Yamamoto:
- So, Rosie and her father lived for a while with two women, her mother and Ume Hanazono.
- Then, standing up, still singing, for she was possessed by the notion that any attempt now to analyze would result in spoilage and she believed that the larger her volume, the less she would be able to hear herself think, she obtained more hot water and poured it on until she was free of lather.
- Yes, yes, I promise, Rosie said. But, for an instant, she turned away, and her mother, hearing the familiar glib agreement, released her. Oh, you, you, you, her eyes and twisted mouth said, you fool.
- Haiku, a poem in which she must pack all her meaning into seventeen syllables only.
- Yes, yes, I understand. How utterly lovely.
- But Ume Hanazono’s life span, even for a poet’s, was very brief.
- Rosie … felt … hate for … her mother for begging, for her father for denying her mother.
- Rosie fell for the first time entirely victim to a helplessness delectable beyond speech.
- Tell him I shall only be a minute.
- Smashing the picture, glass and all … he reached over for the kerosene.
- Watching the dying fire … her mother was very calm.
- The telling would combine with the other violence … to level her life, her world.
- Her mother … had come to America and married … as an alternative to suicide.
- Rosie … promise me you will never marry!
- Jesus, Jesus, she called silently.
- Oh you, you, you, her eyes and twisted mouth said, you fool.
- Yes, yes, I promise.
- The embrace and consoling hand came much later than she expected.
- English lay ready on the tongue but Japanese had to be searched for and examined, and even then put forth tentatively (probably to meet with laughter).”
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