I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me. Tao Lin More Quotes by Tao Lin More Quotes From Tao Lin Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same. Tao Lin human-lifehumansbelief Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it. Tao Lin moosealienssometimes 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". Tao Lin nextregretway I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that. Tao Lin okaymarketingthinking 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 ? Tao Lin meanlooksrooms Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore. Tao Lin diedpeoplethinking 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. Tao Lin girltwochildren It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future. Tao Lin investinglastsyears I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues (things not affected, in my view, by if someone rides a horse or drives a car or talks only IRL or only by typing), not how old they are, what they use to convey what they think and feel about certain existential issues, or if we have both watched the same TV shows or looked at the same websites. Tao Lin horseissuesthinking Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind of novel: a human attempt to transfer or convey some part or version of their world of noumenon to another’s world of noumenon. Tao Lin termkindworld Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it. Tao Lin animalpeopleideas Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me. Tao Lin existencedrugseems You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected. Tao Lin effortskullspeople Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video. Tao Lin true-lifeincrediblesvideo Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake. Tao Lin cakeeasypeople I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself. Tao Lin feel-goodifsfeels 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. Tao Lin spacefearmoving sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful Tao Lin distancebeautifulyears does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction Tao Lin helmetsocialdoe 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. Tao Lin emaildifferentthinking
