"You were one person alive and your brain……" — Tao Lin
"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."
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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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One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible…
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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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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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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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