"One seemed simply to be here, less an……" — Tao Lin
"One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future."
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35 Quotes by Tao Lin
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But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. Â It just went away after a while.
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Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
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I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also…
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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…
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He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring,…
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The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.
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I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.
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Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of…
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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…
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You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It…
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loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's…
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Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and…
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More Accumulation Quotes
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
— Noam Chomsky
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
— William J. Clinton
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
— Anne Roiphe
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
— Brenda Ueland
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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