"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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Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.212, Knopf

Charles Yu

#Choices Quotes #Risk Quotes #Events Quotes

“Truth is the best defense.”

Source : Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.23, City Lights Books
“Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.”
“I try to use pain as fuel for my work.”
“I think SS501 will be the same even after 5 years”
“Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.”
“I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.”
“There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.”

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