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Tao Lin Quotes

I listen to music almost any time I’m not sleeping, ‘hanging out’ with specific people, or showering Picture Quote #1

Sad things are beautiful only from a distancetherefore you just want to get away from themfrom a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i’m going to distance myself until the world is beautiful Picture Quote #1

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases ‘neutral facial expression’ and ‘screaming in agony.’ Picture Quote #1

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 where I don’t leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those Picture Quote #1

My first book was poetry, but I didn’t write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose Picture Quote #1

I’m not being secretive about anything. I just actually don’t have opinions about society Picture Quote #1

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I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her Picture Quote #1

My face always looks bored or depressed. It’s not an accurate impression Picture Quote #1

The idea of ‘advice,’ in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it Picture Quote #1

I think I’ve written about family and things in ‘Taipei’ which could be considered Asian culture Picture Quote #1

Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death Picture Quote #1

Does a society exist where it’s become acceptable to wear ‘helmets’ enclosing one’s entire head when in public to preempt social interaction Picture Quote #1

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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 hand-to-hand combat Picture Quote #1

I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart Picture Quote #1

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore Picture Quote #1

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight Picture Quote #1

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same Picture Quote #1

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it Picture Quote #1

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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 criticizing everything that’s there. It’s really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it Picture Quote #1

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 moose there and the moose would fall Picture Quote #1

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 when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at Picture Quote #1

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 that still wanted something. A world without right or wrong invited you over, complained about you, and gave you cookies. Don’t leave, it said, and gave you a vegan cookie. It avoided eye contact, but touched your knee sometimes. It was the world without right or wrong. It didn’t have any meaning. It just wanted a little meaning Picture Quote #1

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake Picture Quote #1

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared? Picture Quote #1

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As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls Picture Quote #1

Sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years... I’m going to distance myself until the world is beautiful Picture Quote #1

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn’t so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in Picture Quote #1

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future Picture Quote #1

But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while Picture Quote #1

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 of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon Picture Quote #1

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I listen to music almost any time I’m not sleeping, ‘hanging out’ with specific people, or showering. (Tao Lin Quotes) Sad things are beautiful only from a distancetherefore you just want to get away from themfrom a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i’m going to distance myself until the world is beautiful (Tao Lin Quotes) I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases ‘neutral facial expression’ and ‘screaming in agony.’ (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 where I don’t leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those. (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 Quotes) I’m not being secretive about anything. I just actually don’t have opinions about society. (Tao Lin Quotes) I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her (Tao Lin Quotes) My face always looks bored or depressed. It’s not an accurate impression. (Tao Lin Quotes) The idea of ‘advice,’ in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it. (Tao Lin Quotes) I think I’ve written about family and things in ‘Taipei’ which could be considered Asian culture. (Tao Lin Quotes) Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 hand-to-hand combat (Tao Lin Quotes) I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart (Tao Lin Quotes) Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore (Tao Lin Quotes) The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight (Tao Lin Quotes) Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same (Tao Lin Quotes) Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 moose there and the moose would fall (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 that still wanted something. A world without right or wrong invited you over, complained about you, and gave you cookies. Don’t leave, it said, and gave you a vegan cookie. It avoided eye contact, but touched your knee sometimes. It was the world without right or wrong. It didn’t have any meaning. It just wanted a little meaning (Tao Lin Quotes) Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake (Tao Lin Quotes) Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared? (Tao Lin Quotes) As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls (Tao Lin Quotes) Sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years... I’m going to distance myself until the world is beautiful (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 Quotes) One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future (Tao Lin Quotes) But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while (Tao Lin Quotes) 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 of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon (Tao Lin Quotes)

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