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With “Taipei” Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation…

Bret Easton Ellis

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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Two Writing Years
I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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Feelings Kind Thinking
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?
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Beer College Drink
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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Accustomed Anything Habit People
Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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Deals People Rock Roll
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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Do Evil People Something
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Answers Enough Smart
One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.”‘ I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. ‘What does the other part of him think?’ Hamlin asks tentatively. ‘What her head would look like on a stick…’
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Ask Mice One Part Right Swallow Treat
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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Cab Cities Installed
It’s as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there… is… no… key.
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Analysis Communicating Key Mind Rational
Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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Night Running Thinking
I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say “I love you I love you I love you” while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
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Kissing Love Mouth Say Stripping
And,” Price adds, smiling, “if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d’ on fire. So you know, warn him.
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Feet Fire Twenties
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
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Darkness Wind Woods
I don’t really need to pretend, because it’s who I am, an emotional vampire. I’ve just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people’s real emotions. Search for this night’s prey. Who will it be?
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Emotional Except Motion People Real Vampire
I don’t know why I write what I write.
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Knows Write Writing

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