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Tao Lin Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“His memories had increasingly occurred to him without context, outside of linear time, like single poems on sheets of computer paper, instead of pages from a book with the page number and book title on top.”
— Tao Lin, Taipei (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Memory, Time, How Time Works, Time Warps, Against The Linear
“Feels like I 'only' want to convey incredibly powerful, convincing, unceasing messages of I don't know and I have nothing to say to you.”
— Tao Lin, Twitter (5 Mar 2011)
Tagged: No Communication, Broken Language, No Bridge, I Don't Know
“Sometimes you had to be a little bit insane. You had to say, 'Give me that. Let me do it.' You had to take things from the world and bend them and then put them back in the world, bent like that.”
— Tao Lin, Insomnia For A Better Tomorrow
Tagged: Control, Asserting Control, Learning, Hands-on
“He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or some slowly developing suburb— to be alone and carefully build a life in which he might be able to begin, at some point, to think about what to do about himself.”
— Tao Lin, Taipei (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Disappear Here
“On a Megabus to New York City — for around fifteen hours, due to a two-hour delay in Buffalo — he read all he could find by Alethia on the internet, becoming more “obsessed,” he felt, after each article, lying on his back across two seats with knees bent, twice dropping his iPhone onto his face. His interest in Alethia naturally decreased, the next few days, then they texted a few times and he felt renewed obsession, but he didn’t like her impersonal tone in their emails discussing their interview— which she’d spent eight hours transcribing— and, less than a week after they met, all he felt toward her, to his weak amusement, was an unexamined combination of indifference and vague resentment, which he described in an email to Charles, whose previous knowledge of Alethia was that Paul liked her “a lot,” as “strong aversion,” only half joking. Paul’s next email to Charles said “I feel like I ‘hate’ her” and that it seemed, by the bureaucratic language and curtness of Alethia’s emails, like she also “hated” him, that they “hated” each other.”
— Tao Lin, Taipei (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: The Bends of Liking Someone
“After blearily looking at the internet a little, then peeing and brushing his teeth and washing his face, he lay in darkness on his mattress, finally allowing the simple insistence of the opioid, like an unending chord progression with a consistently unexpected and pleasing manner of postponing resolution, to accumulate and expand, until his brain and heart and the rest of him were contained within the same songlike beating— of another, larger, protective heart— inside of which, temporarily safe from the outside world, he would shrink into the lunar city of himself and feel and remember strange and forgotten things, mostly from his childhood.”
— Tao Lin, Taipei (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Drug Experiences, Childhood Memories
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