/lit/ - Literature

>>7193920
Well, i have another one, ill come back later.

>be me
>16
>lurking through old bookstore.
>find pretty book 'bout shakespeare
>buy for like $5 (used)
>read it, like it.
Months later
>sell the same book for $9 dollars
>feeling pretty clever
>go buy another book to another bookstore
>see the same book i just sold for like $300
>almost shit my pants
Turns out it was an old edition from Aguilar (one of the best publishers of spain)
Now I research every single book I have.

>>7182183
>you will never EVER be Knausgaard's protegé

>>7166525
>Kirsten Dunst will never laughingly interrupt your pol-tier rant

why even live

>>7151852
>that picture

>>7048272
Talk to yourself.

I've been doing it for years for an unrelated reason, but it's improved my writing

I KEEP REWRITING THE ONE PARAGRAPH

OVER AND OVER AND OVER

>>7038716
I'm fine.

Really, I'm fine.

>>6959924
not me

>anon, why are you so wierd?
>dude, stop being so wierd haha
>did you hear what anon did, fucking wierd cunt
>anon, you're like an old man trapped in a young guys body
>son, you've always been sort of special

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

>>6875632
>not father issues

>>6858483
real human bean

>>6861912
All my stories are the same story. The protagonist is just some asshole avatar of myself and I make the audience hate him just like I hate him.

>>6819210
>want to buy a copy of an Alice Munro collection
>it has a picture of a peach on the cover
>peaches make me uncomfortable so I don't buy it

Life is a struggle

"I'm fine."

>>6783791
>But here’s the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free.

That sounds nice

The Castle
>tfw you will never treat Freida like shit and then have her leave you

>>6770561
>Sitting alone at a table while people around me are laughing and talking with their friends instead of studying.
I remember when I was in a my school library and all the guys around me were talking about all the blow jobs they get. mfw

>Escapism
I get depressed if I don't have a book to escape into :^(

>>6744112
>>6744147
>tfw dont have this kind of relationship with my sister

>>6720454
What book has an alcoholic racist homophobic dad in it?

>>6717714

>>6647200
>I've fallen in love passionately more than 50 times over the last 6 years, sometimes with women I only talked to once.

>>6606984
>you will never right like this

>>6596490
>I wonder if I'm really bisexual or just incredibly lonely
ffffuuuccckkk