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| Educated At: | Columbia Law School, Columbia University |
| Nationality: | United States Of America |
| Occupations: | Novelist |
Total quotes: 3
Charles Yu
BirthnameEducated At: Columbia Law School, Columbia University
Nationality: United States Of America
Occupations: Novelist
Total quotes: 3
“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 vanished. How do you say it? 'Like a deep and distant dream.' Then, at the funeral, I tried to console my daughter. She pushed me away, told me that my wife's death was no accident that she killed herself because of me. Emily said that every day with me had been sheer terror. At any point, I could blow up or collapse like some dark star”
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Who Am I?, Origin Story
“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 tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.”
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Westworld
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