Tao Lin

“i recommend the phrase 'pineapple ass”

— Tao Lin

“Amoeba ass is so hot.”

— Tao Lin

I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

— Tao Lin

A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

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We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

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I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.

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But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.

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“and that’s its only skill and it isn’t good enough but it’s still amazing”

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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.

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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

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It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.

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Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

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“He asked if there were more things she had lied about. She said she had to think. She said she was still…

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I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and…

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I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to…

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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

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I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive…

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I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of…

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I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe…

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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything…

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My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my…

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I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't…

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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or…

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It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they…

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I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was…

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I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so…

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If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it…

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A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those…

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“As a teenager, he made screaming noises at night in his room, like a deranged person. He threw his electrical pencil sharpener…

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“Susie-Q," said Daniel with a smirk-like grin indicating both earnest disapproval and a kind of fondness toward Seroquel and its intense, often…

— Tao Lin

“Though she’d begun to get a bit fat that winter, it was in February, around when her father found a toy poodle…

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I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically…

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“The Gorilla Foundation, like a tree or cloud or other thing from nature, seems to mostly present itself only to an ideal,…

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He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and…

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“It would take her thousands of steps to get anywhere, but she would get there easily, and when she arrived, in the…

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I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.

— Tao Lin

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

— Tao Lin

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

— Tao Lin