Charles Yu - Time Quotes

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How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

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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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I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.

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How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?

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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact thing every night, night after night. Total silence. Absolutely nothing. That's why I chose it. I know for a fact nothing bad can happen to me in here.

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Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

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Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

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