"Maybe we spend most of our decades being……" — Charles Yu
"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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Charles Yu
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35 Quotes by Charles Yu
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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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