Quotes by Tao Lin

Tao Lin

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

Two

Death is the end of the fear of death. […] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.

Fear

Moving

Space

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 ?

Looks

Mean

Rooms

Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, “hate crimes,” [other things most people feel aversion toward].

Hate

Racism

War

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

Expanding

Feels

I Can

I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.

Girlfriend

Messages

Text Message

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

Lonely

Real

I don’t know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is “racist,” to differing degrees, in that everyone’s brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at (for example skin color, bone structure), but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn’t neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.

Race

Skin Color

Thinking

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

Lying

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven’t reached the point where I’m not doing that.

Havens

Investing

Investing In The Future

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Agree

Animal

Average

Beautiful

Belief

Book

Brain

Character

Children

Comedy

Design

Died

Distance

Done

Drug

Empathy

Entertainment

Existence

Expanding

Fear

Feelings

Feels

Fun

Girl

Girlfriend

Going Away

Half

Hate

Havens

Heart

Human Life

Humans

I Can

Ideas

Incredibles

Investing

Investing In The Future

Issues

Lasts

Like You

Lonely

Looks

Lying

Mean

Messages

Morality

Moving

Not Happy

People

Pyramid Schemes

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Quotes by Tao Lin

Tao Lin

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.

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 ?

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

I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven’t reached the point where I’m not doing that.

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