"It's like all technology: either not powerful enough……" — Charles Yu
"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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35 Quotes by Charles Yu
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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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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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I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always…
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