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“i try not to think of myself as a person
but a metal object, built suddenly by machines in complete darkness
something impossible to hurt with a shovel”
― Tao Lin, You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am

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“Haley Joel Osment said “Party girl” which was a term they had for people who did not speak in a quiet monotone and were not severely detached.”
― Tao Lin, Richard Yates

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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”
― Tao Lin, Selected Tweets

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“It would take her thousands of steps to get anywhere, but she would get there easily, and when she arrived, in the present, it would seem like it had been a single movement that brought her there. Did existence ever seem worked for? One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.”
― Tao Lin, Taipei

tags: existence, time

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“Paul thought of how they'd kept delaying buying plane tickets to visit his parents in Taiwan - in December, which was next month, he knew - as if in tacit understanding that their relationship wouldn't last that long. Paul felt himself trying to interpret the situation, as if there was a problem to be solved, but there didn't seem to be anything, or maybe there was, but he was three or four skill sets away from comprehension, like an amoeba trying to create a personal webpage using CSS.”
― Tao Lin, Taipei

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