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Tao Lin (林韜; born July 2, 1983) 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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I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms. " I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.

Foreshadowing, Shy, Teach, Teaching, Terms, Way

I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.

Apart, Expanding, Feels, I Can, Making, Universe

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.

Actually, Certain, Effect, Opinion, Things, Views

I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. 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.

Bed, Book, Books, Children, Lie, Lying

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.

Agree, Done, People, Treated

He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think.

Consciousnessless, Fall, Falling, Spring, Spritual, Summer

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.

Book, Children, Having, Lying, Sit, Things

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.

Chats, Different, Email, Obvious, Say, Thinking

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 ?

Alone, Know, Looks, Mean, Rooms

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.

Fun, Instead, Keep, Thinking, Vacation, Wherever

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.

Book, Brain, Everything, Like, Reading, Thinking

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

Belief, Human Life, Humans, Lives, Same, Worth

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

Cake, Carrot, Easy, Life, People

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.

Combat, Depressing, Different, Hands, Hilarious, Minutes

I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection with people my age I wouldn't have written six books about feeling depressed, alienated, lonely. If I did I would have many friends and feel connected with them and probably be a happy person who has a real job.

Book, Books, Connected, Connection, Lonely, Real

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.

Bret, Character, Easton, Identify, Said, Thinking

As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.

Children, Girl, Imagined, Keep, Swung, Two

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.

Cutting, Enough, Good, Loneliness, Same, Skills

I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.

Feel Good, Feels, Good, Ifs, Repeating

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

Died, Life, People, Think, Thinking

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