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loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.
— Tao Lin this emotion was a little e-book
Tags: skill, poetry, loneliness, humor

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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
— Tao Lin
Tags: hanging, people, time, music
I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
— Tao Lin
Tags: just, anything, being, society
I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
— Tao Lin
Tags: think, words, time, music
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
— Tao Lin
Tags: think, people, me, funny
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
— Tao Lin
Tags: reality, memory, focus, me
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