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Tao Lin Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“Imagine if species of plants had as much advertising every year as brands of drugs.”
— Tao Lin
Tagged: plants, Advertising, Tree Hugging
“My tears felt dense and complex as blood.”
— Tao Lin, Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
Tagged: Tears, Blood, Examples of Metaphors
“Psychedelics catalyze change, but not indefinitely and not without concurrent strategies.”
— Tao Lin, How I Got Off Adderall And Xanax Using Psilocybin
“When writing a book, I think of the people who will read it twice or more, not the people who will read it once.”
— Tao Lin
Tagged: Writing A Book, Figuring Out Who You Are Writing For, Write A Book, Writing & Expression
“Maybe an infant overmind, made of minds as animals were made of cells, was self-preservationally downloading partnership ideas into society, in part by sprinkling them over urban parks.”
— Tao Lin, Leave Society
Tagged: In Favor Of Urban Life, The Benefit of Cities
“I view language and life as two entirely separate things, with different properties.”
— Tao Lin, Tao Lin On Why He Writes
Tagged: Life and Literature, Words Aren't Reality
“I support the prehistoric burial method excarnation where the body is left outside on a platform for birds to eat then the bones are buried.”
— Tao Lin
Tagged: Burial Rituals, What To Do With Your Body (When You're Dead)
“The word technology is used in the book to mean something like ‘the non-circular, linear-seeming aspect of a system.’”
— Tao Lin, Interview | Tao Lin | Granta Magazine
Tagged: The Essence of Technology, Technological Being
“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
“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
“I’ve thought about the CIA probably targeting me, or having someone ‘keep tabs’ on me, but I like that.”
— Tao Lin, Observing the Art Appear From Nowhere: Tao Lin's Addiction to Terence McKenna
Tagged: CIA
“Li disliked trying to change others. Since college, he’d derived inspiration from a passage in The Book of Disquiet on how people who are concerned about evil and injustice in the world should begin the campaign against those things at their nearest source—themselves—in a task that would take a lifetime.”
— Tao Lin, Leave Society
Tagged: Change
“A long-term strategy I have for staying disciplined and motivated is to keep learning about the ways in which my mind and body have been damaged from trillions of dollars of advertisements, thousands of synthetic compounds, multigenerational malnourishment, an unnatural microbiome, and other things new to the human species, and to continue increasing my understanding of what I can do to heal myself gradually years and decades.”
— Tao Lin, Tao Lin On Why He Writes
Tagged: Multigenerational Damage, Discipline, What Has Been Done To Us
“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
“With my recent book, I used drugs in a regimented manner most of the time. My goal was to create a steady, reliable state of consciousness within which I could work 6-13 hours a day, unlike with Taipei which I wrote staying up 2-3 days working and then feeling unable to do anything for like 3-10 days. I get much more work done with a daily schedule than with the bleak method I used with Taipei.”
— Tao Lin, Tao Lin On Why He Writes
Tagged: Drug Usage, Schedules
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