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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.
Tao Lin
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Tao Lin
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: July 2
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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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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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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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I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.
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I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.
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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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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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We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.
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I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's really funny. With this book, since I'm opening it at random and immediately interested, I don't feel the need to read more than I want to read, in that there's not, like, a plot that leads me along. So I can stop whenever.
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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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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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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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I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.
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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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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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I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.
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The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.
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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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Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
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