Tao Lin Quotes

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• But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. Â It just went away after a while.
• One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.
• Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
• I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described…
• If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's…
• He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague…
• The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.
• I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.
• Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all…
• Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind…
• You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
• 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 skill and it…
• Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death…
• Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in…
• Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.
• Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be…
• There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable…
• A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but…
• Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t…
• It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she…

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