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I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't think I was similar to him. But it seems like people just compare you to anyone, pretty much.

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Tao Lin
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: July 2
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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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I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.
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I actually don't have...opinions. I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things but I don't view those effects as good or bad.
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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 it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.
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Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.
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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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