Tao Lin Quotes

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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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Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

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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.

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

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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 ?

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When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

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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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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.

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