Tao Lin Quotes - Page 2

• I was delivering pizzas at Domino's. I was 17 maybe. I liked it a lot. Just driving in the nice weather and listening to music.

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  Nice, Weather, Listening

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 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.

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  World, Kind, Term

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• If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.

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  Book, Writing, Criticism

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.

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  Character, Thinking, Said

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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 had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker.

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  Sadness, Heart, Scary

  Tao Lin (2013). “Taipei”, p.146, Canongate Books

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• I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.

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  Investing, Investing In The Future, Havens

  Interview with David Shapiro Jr., www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2013.

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• It seems like I'm not [happy]. Because if you look at my tweets and what I think and say, it seems like I'm worried about what's going to happen.

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  Thinking, Looks, Not Happy

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Si escribiera sobre "ser [abstracción]" estaría ignorando cuestiones existenciales (como la muerte, el tiempo limitado, la naturaleza arbitraria del universo, el misterio de la conciencia) que siento que me afectan más en mi vida y en las que pienso la mayor parte del tiempo. Otra razón es que no me parece específico ni exacto escribir sobre "ser [abstracción]". Creo que hay otras razones.

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  Escribir, pensar, temas

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think Gmail chats are different than IRL conversations because Gmail chats are saved by Gmail exactly as they occurred. I like texts and emails. Seems like I don't have anything to say that isn't obvious about texts, emails, and Gmail chats.

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  Thinking, Email, Different

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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• It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives.

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  People, Done, Agree

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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• It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.

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  Years, Investing, Lasts

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things. I don't think having an internet presence helps financially.

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  Children, Lying, Book

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it.

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  Animal, Ideas, People

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• 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 some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.

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  True Life, Video, Incredibles

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• Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

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  Cake, People, Easy

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• If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would have more money, I think. I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view [anything] as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

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  Thinking, Views, Design

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.

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  Fear, Moving, Space

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• las cosas tristes son bellas solo desde la distancia por eso solo quieres alejarte de ellas desde una distancia de ciento treinta años ....voy a distanciarme hasta que el mundo sea bello

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  Beautiful, Distance, Years

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• We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

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  Night, Sitting, Stills

  Tao Lin (2009). “Shoplifting from American Apparel”, Melville House Pub

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• While other rich people might be like, "Once I'm rich I'm going to go on a vacation to wherever," but instead they just keep wanting to be more rich. It just seems like it would be fun to do whatever you wanted. If I were really rich I would be flying places, I think.

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  Fun, Thinking, Vacation

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

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  Strong, Average, World

  Tao Lin (2013). “Taipei”, p.127, Vintage

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• note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Doe

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Loneliness, Long

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• 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 the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy.

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  Half, Entertainment, Comedy

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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.

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  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

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