"Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years."

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Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.111, Vintage

Charles Yu

#Self Quotes #Years Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.”
“Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.”
“The connection, that's what's important - that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other.”
“I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.”
“The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.”
“The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.”
“In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.”
“I wanted young women to know that I was very lucky that I worked for people who literally let me be me. If I had ever been anyone other than me, I would have come off as a fake, a phony, a fraud, and never would have gotten where I ultimately ended up. You can be yourself and be in politics, and they should know that. That was kind of why I wanted to do it - because I didn't see any freaks in politics like me.”

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