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

Bret Easton Ellis

I think we’ve all lost some kind of feeling.
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Feelings Kind Thinking
Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
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Baby Book Heart
I’ve never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I’ve never touched upon my life. I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place.
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Novel Scene Touched
Hello, Halberstam,” Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen,” I say, admiring the way he’s styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it…
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Care Hair Mulling Over
People are afraid to merge.
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Afraid Merge People
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
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Character Ideas Way
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
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Crazy Cruise Madness
I don’t know why I write what I write.
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Knows Write Writing
That’s how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers.
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Answer Girl Love Party Question
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.
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Cab Cities Installed
People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.
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Accustomed Anything Habit People
I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it.
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Car Light Steps
I’ve been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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Accused Apathy Vain
You don’t market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It’s a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you’re confronted by criticism. You just don’t listen to it.
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Criticism Hobbies Writing
Women aren’t very bright,” Rip says. “Studies have been done.
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Done Rip Study
I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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Answers Enough Smart

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