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>> No.9916092 [View]
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All novelists are failed poets.

". I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing." - Faulkner

Discuss poetry vs. novels

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>tfw you study enough to realize that ~92% of what normalfags say about life is the truth
>tfw you realize that just being a generally solid dude with good moral values and a good social circle is worth infinitely more than any amount of interesting knowledge or intelligence

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>tfw you study enough to realize that ~92% of what normalfags say about life is bullshit they heard from the tv and their parents
>tfw you realize that even a small amount of interesting knowledge and intelligence is worth more than a bunch of people you pretend to like will approve of you for being some arbitrary "common sense" ideal they learned on tv

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