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10935144 No.10935144 [Reply] [Original]

You've become a celebrated author. How would Alain de Botton summarize your life and work in one of his wonderful videos?

>> No.10935171
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>>10935144
Take the talk of heeb writers elsewhere, chum. Tia.

>> No.10935182

profound reminder of the human spirit, and that its okay to be unhappy with yourself

>>10935171
kys

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he summarises all writers as being basically the same. he somehow managed to turn Augustine's concept of original sin into a point about self-confidence. he's the ultimate, gutless commodity version of high culture.

>> No.10935217

>>10935211
That's the point. How could he boil you down into the most banal shit imaginable?

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>>10935217
He would say that my works/ideas/attitude encourages us all to see our own lives as worthy of great attention and interest and that its okay to have bad days and feel disappointed sometimes, as he says about every writer.