Quotes by Tao Lin

About Tao Lin:

Tao Lin is an American novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published three novels, two books of poetry, one short story collection, and one novella in print as well as an extensive assortment of online content. His third novel, Taipei, was published by Vintage on June 4, 2013.
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Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusiastic or attentive that he could sustain regardless o...

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The late-afternoon sky, in Paul's peripheral vision, panoramic and mostly unobstructed, appeared rural or suburban, more indicative of forests and fields and lakes—of nature's vast connections, through the air and the soil, to more of itself—than...

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It was spring, not winter or autumn, Paul thought with some lingering confusion. He listened to the layered murmur of wind against leaves, familiarly and gently disorienting as a terrestrial sound track, reminding people of their own lives, then open...

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- ¿No te parece a veces que vivir en el mundo es como una mierda? - ¿A qué te refieres? - dijo Paul lentamente. - A ver... que lo que el mundo puede darnos no basta para satisfacernos. - No -dijo Paul al cabo de unos diez segundos, y se tapó la c...

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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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-Y ahora qué hacemos - dijo Paul cuando unos veinte minutos más tarde se marchaban del parque. Después de dar unos pasos en la calle, Daniel miró distraídamente en las dos direcciones y, con la vista al frente y expresión preocupada, dobló a l...

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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.

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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.

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I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

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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 a...

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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.

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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

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I like most any place if I have Internet access.

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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.

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does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.

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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 c...

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Author Bio

  • NameTao Lin
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist
  • BornJuly 2, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist
  • WorksTaipei; Bed; Richard Yates