Charles Yu Short Quotes

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If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

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You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

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At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

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You haven't experienced awkwardness until you've seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

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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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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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It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

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There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.

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Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

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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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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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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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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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I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

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I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

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