"This, then, is my choice: I can allow……" — Charles Yu
"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."
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35 Quotes by Charles Yu
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Well begun is half done.
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