136 Quotes by Tao Lin

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    The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.

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    Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn’t be moose there and the moose would fall.

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    I don’t know how to incorporate regret. But I’ll say, like, “It affected me that way,” “I learned this,” “Next time maybe I’ll do it differently.”

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

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    I want my funeral to be a pizza party with 500 pizzas and nobody is allowed to leave until all the pizzas are eaten.

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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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    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.

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