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Charles Yu Quotes

I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It’s just that most people’s time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines Picture Quote #1

Sometimes when I’m brushing my teeth, I’ll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I’m not even particularly good at being myself Picture Quote #1

You can only go to places that you will let yourself go Picture Quote #1

All anyone is to anyone is a series of days Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire Picture Quote #1

We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think Picture Quote #1

It’s like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be? Picture Quote #1

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself Picture Quote #1

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can’t. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you’re you? Are you sure you didn’t slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing? Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure Picture Quote #1

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At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever Picture Quote #1

What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don’t I ever learn? Why don’t I ever do anything different? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have lost, and replace it with knowledge. 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 Picture Quote #1

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her (Charles Yu Quotes) 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. (Charles Yu Quotes) Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It’s just that most people’s time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines (Charles Yu Quotes) Sometimes when I’m brushing my teeth, I’ll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I’m not even particularly good at being myself (Charles Yu Quotes) You can only go to places that you will let yourself go (Charles Yu Quotes) All anyone is to anyone is a series of days (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire (Charles Yu Quotes) We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think (Charles Yu Quotes) It’s like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be? (Charles Yu Quotes) You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself (Charles Yu Quotes) You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can’t. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you’re you? Are you sure you didn’t slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing? (Charles Yu Quotes) 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? (Charles Yu Quotes) This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure (Charles Yu Quotes) At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever (Charles Yu Quotes) What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don’t I ever learn? Why don’t I ever do anything different? (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) I don’t miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have lost, and replace it with knowledge. 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 (Charles Yu Quotes) Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward (Charles Yu Quotes) 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 (Charles Yu Quotes)