If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.
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Charles Yu
Charles Yu (Chinese name: You Chao-Kai/"游朝凱", born in 1976 in Los Angeles) is a Taiwanese American writer. He is the author of the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and the short story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2007 he was named a 5 under 35 honoree by The National Book Foundation. How to Live Safely was ranked the year's second best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas — runner up for the Campbell Memorial Award. 2Writing His fiction has been published in a number of magazines and literary journals, including Oxford American, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, The New Yorker, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and cited for special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVIII. He received the 2004 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award for his story, "Third Class Superhero." In 2007, he was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its "5 Under 35," a program which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers by asking five previous National Book Award fiction Winners and Finalists to select one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find particularly promising and exciting. Yu was selected for the honor by Richard Powers. His first novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe was ranked the year's second best science fiction novel by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas — and a runner up for the Campbell Memorial Award. The book was also optioned by film director and writer Chris Columbus' Production Company, 1492 Pictures. He is one of the story editors for the 2016 HBO series, Westworld. The episode, "Trace Decay", was co-written by hi
You want to know who I am? Who I really am? I'm a god. Titan of industry. Philanthropist. Family man, married to a beautiful woman, father to a beautiful daughter. I'm the good guy, Teddy. Then, last year, my wife took the wrong pills. Fell asleep in the bath. Tragic accident. 30 years of marriage…
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Even I fell into the most terrible of human traps...Trying to change what is already past.
There are things in me, things I was designed to do that are just out of my reach.
He's in pain. What kind of people would we be if we simply let him suffer?
Time to write my own fucking story.
When you find a cancer in an organization, you must cut it out before it can spread.
There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as…