Tao Lin

Author and Poet

Tao Lin is an American author known for his distinct voice in contemporary literature, particularly through works like 'Taipei' and 'Shoplifting from American Apparel'.

Born
October 1, 1983
Quotes
67
Rank
#1491

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"I don't think anything ever "needs" to happen. I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things."

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"I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me."

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"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."

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"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."

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"I actually don't have...opinions. I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things but I don't view those effects as good or bad."

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"Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me."

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