Tao Lin

It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the…

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

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“I won,” said Chelsea’s dad, and went to give Chelsea a high-five, but missed, as they were standing too close. “My fault,”…

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Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is…

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note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept…

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Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after…

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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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“There was a metal rod inside of Colin. The rod went from his stomach to the middle of his head. It was…

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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 don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at…

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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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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

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“Dolphins felt top-heavy, that year, most of the time, and wanted to lie down. When their heads weren’t on top they still…

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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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Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat…

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“It was a year, that year, Ellen knew, as she’d noticed from her 10th grade classmates and from observing her family —…

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

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You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort…

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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks…

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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect,…

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I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.

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

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Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t…

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When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no…

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