"Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as……" — Charles Yu
"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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35 Quotes by Charles Yu
Charles Yu has 35 quotes on this site.
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You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one…
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This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you…
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Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required…
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I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful…
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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…
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I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling…
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More Accommodate Quotes
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In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains…
— Martha Beck
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed…
— Jimmy Carter
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The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs…
— Unknown Author
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
— Michel de Montaigne
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it…
— Andrew Carnegie
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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
— Voltaire
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If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed…
— Jerry Falwell
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments,…
— Barack Obama
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You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as…
— David Attenborough
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In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being…
— Grete Waitz
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that…
— Pope Pius XI
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