"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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Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.233, Vintage

Charles Yu

#Want Quotes #Littles Quotes #Enjoy Quotes

“The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still.”

Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing
“A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.151, Christian Fellowship Publishers
“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.”
“"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5â€² 11". So I just picked baseball."”
“I like to think of myself as a 'live life to its fullest' type of guy.”
“Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.”
“I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.”
“Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If thereâ€™s an owner who isnâ€™t, he has his head in the sand.”

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