Tao Lin Quotes

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Tao Lin is a contemporary Chinese novelist known for his minimalist style and introspective narratives. Born on July 2, 1983, he has gained significant attention for his work that often explores themes of alienation and the digital age.

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Famous Tao Lin Quotes

“If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things as good or bad. So I'm like a robot or computer in that sense. So maybe that's why people don't think they know me when they read my writing.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Goal Views Computer Defined Know Me Robots

Author:Tao Lin

“I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.”

Thinking Knows Said Character Term Written Amount Empathy Not Sure

Author:Tao Lin

“I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't think I was similar to him. But it seems like people just compare you to anyone, pretty much.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Book Seems Pages Compare

Author:Tao Lin

“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".”

Knows Way Next Know How Regret Affected Next Time

Author:Tao Lin

“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.”

Thinking Knows Self Race Brain Information Example Color Degrees Racism Skins Increase Structure Bones Racist Associates Skin Color

Author:Tao Lin

“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 ?”

Knows Feels Looks Mean Sometimes Rooms Computer Scared Look Up

Book:Shoplifting from American Apparel

Source: Shoplifting from American Apparel

“We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.”

Knows Has Beens Stills Night Sitting All Night

Book:Shoplifting from American Apparel

Source: Shoplifting from American Apparel

Knows Doe Buddhism Concepts Notes Buddhist Similarity

Author:Tao Lin

“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.”

Ifs Knows Way Humans Heart Said Seems Felt Sadness Rate Scary Senses Tone Interpretation Immune Decrease Visceral Erin Heart Rate

Book:Taipei

Source: Taipei

About the Author

Born: July 2, 1983
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 86

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