Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future. — Tao Lin Future Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“He asked if there were more things she had lied about. She said she had to think. She said she was still… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“...each moment of being herself, she knew, was a strengthening, an adapting, of who she was; and she didn’t want to be… — Tao Lin Heart Copy Share Image
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept… — Tao Lin Buddhism 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
It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was… — Tao Lin Agony Copy Share Image
I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the… — Tao Lin Comedy 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
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my… — Tao Lin Book Copy Share Image
“i will learn how to love a person and then i will teach you and then we will know" seen from a… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“It would take her thousands of steps to get anywhere, but she would get there easily, and when she arrived, in the… — Tao Lin Existence Copy Share Image
“People went up and down Sixth Avenue with the word motherfucker in their heads. They felt no emotions, had no sensation of… — Tao Lin Friday Copy Share Image
A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those… — Tao Lin 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
“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 Feeling lost Copy Share Image
“Though she’d begun to get a bit fat that winter, it was in February, around when her father found a toy poodle… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“The Gorilla Foundation, like a tree or cloud or other thing from nature, seems to mostly present itself only to an ideal,… — Tao Lin Actualization Copy Share Image
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“and i don't think you should lie to me with any nature poems because you know you don't think sand is beautiful… — Tao Lin Nature Copy Share Image
The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time. — 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
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
“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
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
“my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive” — Tao Lin 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
Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it. — Tao Lin Aliens 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
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
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