The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight. — Tao Lin Bad feelings Copy Share Image
One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future. — Tao Lin Accumulation Copy Share Image
I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know… — Tao Lin Computer Copy Share Image
Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with… — Tao Lin Eyes Copy Share Image
I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that. — Tao Lin Future Copy Share Image
“Sara would call one of those cops on horses a motherfucker. The cop would avert his eyes. Sara would ask directions for… — Tao Lin Wild west Copy Share Image
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… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Books Copy Share Image
Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat… — Tao Lin Asian Copy Share Image
“He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an… — Tao Lin Life Copy Share Image
“It was a face that said, “Fuck the world,” but said it reluctantly, and tonelessly, and then apologized, said “Sorry,” but said… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things… — Tao Lin Computer Copy Share Image
I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection… — Tao Lin Age Copy Share Image
I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the… — Tao Lin Brain Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, he made screaming noises at night in his room, like a deranged person. He threw his electrical pencil sharpener… — Tao Lin Bad mother Copy Share Image
I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“When he heard laughter, before he could think or feel anything, his heart would already be beating like he’d sprinted twenty yards.… — Tao Lin Anxiety Copy Share Image
“He used to think things like, This organic soymilk will make me healthy and that'll make my brain work better and that'll… — Tao Lin Pain and suffering Copy Share Image
“Dolphins felt top-heavy, that year, most of the time, and wanted to lie down. When their heads weren’t on top they still… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“It was spring, not winter or autumn, Paul thought with some lingering confusion. He listened to the layered murmur of wind against… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it. — Tao Lin Aliens Copy Share Image
It seems like I'm not [happy]. Because if you look at my tweets and what I think and say, it seems like… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive” — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being… — Tao Lin Books Copy Share Image
“a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel; really it was just the hole that's in the middle of… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort… — Tao Lin Alive Copy Share Image
I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“I felt confused, to some degree, by everything—but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
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