I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering. Tao Lin More Quotes by Tao Lin More Quotes From Tao Lin On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in. Tao Lin strong average world note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...] Tao Lin buddhist buddhism doe There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at. Tao Lin loneliness mistake long We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do. Tao Lin stills sitting night The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time. Tao Lin disbelief notable feelings I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart. Tao Lin expanding i-can feels Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death. Tao Lin pyramid-schemes self ideas It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy. Tao Lin entertainment comedy half 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. Tao Lin agree done people I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker. Tao Lin sadness scary heart 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. Tao Lin hilarious depressing hands One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future. Tao Lin accumulation gifted moments 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, but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism. Tao Lin racism brain thinking When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else. Tao Lin talking book thinking The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight. Tao Lin going-away tonight feelings 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. Tao Lin tired years fall I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want. Tao Lin reading book people A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but that still wanted something. A world without right or wrong invited you over, complained about you, and gave you cookies. Don't leave, it said, and gave you a vegan cookie. It avoided eye contact, but touched your knee sometimes. It was the world without right or wrong. It didn't have any meaning. It just wanted a little meaning. Tao Lin cookies eye two But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while. Tao Lin emotion 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. Tao Lin reading book thinking
