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You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
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Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.
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Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
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Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Charles Yu
Born:
1976
(age 48)
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Charles Yu is a Taiwanese American writer. He is the author of the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and the short story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You.
Known for:
Sorry Please Thank You: Stories (2012)
Third class superhero (2006)
Yeoman (2015)
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