A Quote by Charles Yu

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.

Charles Yu

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Charles Yu
American - Writer
Born: 1976

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