"Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?"

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Source : Tao Lin (2009). “Shoplifting from American Apparel”, Melville House Pub

Tao Lin

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“When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.”

Source : "Romola Garai brings modern sense to roles" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. November 26, 2012.
“If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
“Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”
“I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.”

Source : U.S. News & World Report, May 25, 1956.
“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”
“Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.”
“I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.”
“I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.”

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