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Charles Yu has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to…
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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…
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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…
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Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook,…
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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…
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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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Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized…
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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…
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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 don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's true: time…
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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…
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If…
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I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition…
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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
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I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
— Jonathan Swift
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second…
— Samuel Johnson
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The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you…
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Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily…
— Horace Mann
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There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than…
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Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you…
— Vince Lombardi
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I did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second…
— Cristie Kerr
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I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'.…
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