/lit/ - Literature

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it.

Life has its ups and downs. Every down that happens makes me appreciate the ups a little more.

"My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also."

"If you seek, revenge, expect revenge. If you wish for mercy, grant it.
But too many years of the lives of too many men are already lost, in pursuit of the Phantom, "Justice"."

Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate.

>>3632460
>be born in africa
>no food
>no clothes
>no electricity
>get raped when little
>work all day
>starve to death
this sure must count for more than 10%

#yolo

I use a moral credo
They taught me as a kid
Do as you would be done by
or be done by as you did.

>>3632471
So fucking edgy! Holy shit.

"If you get down and quarrel every day, you're saying prayers to the devil I say"

Not from a book but that is the quote that I most often think of.

>>3632471
Very nice, anon. I liked it.

>>3632459
>implying reading automatically means knowing stuff

yeah, why dont you get a guitar, maybe you'll also turn into a musician after you pass the credit card.

"There is no one right way to live."
-Daniel Quinn

Life is a big colossal joke.

I got that from acid, not reading.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for.
-ernie hemz

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.”

>>3633156

I agree with the second part.

Praised be the infinite web of causes and effects.

>>3633159
>The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.
Talk about an understatement.

Humans are overevolved primates who find meaning in experience by constructing narratives. The usual routine of eating, fighting, fucking and dying becomes a work of art and literature's a synecdoche of life.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

cities are heartbreakers

>>3633431
I can already see the tumblr image macros.

>>3633454
im basically don draper irl ok

People are only as happy as they think they are.

Others have only as much control over you as you're willing to give them.

Know your flight/bus/train departure times, check the tickets ten times a day, and get to the station two hours early. Losing a couple hours is a lot less painful and way cheaper than losing a day or more.

get money
fuck bitches
smoke trees

I discovered that I can either live an illusion of complete satisfaction and happiness or remain aware, self-conscious and melancholic.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I shall not live for the sake of any other man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

>>3633455
Okay. I didn't dislike it though, you could slap that on a jeans commercial with no problem.

>>3633547
Go to bed, Ayn.

>>3633547
>nor ask another man to live for mine.
lelele objectivist bourgeois laissez fair libtard muh fairness market scum can't into aristo-excellence of asking people to live for you without shame

god bless the king

>>3633551
>>3633557
Mad detected

>>3633565
She was a middle school level philosopher. Her arguments consisted of false dichotomies and straw men attacks. What's it like being twelve?

>>3633565
>tfw monarchist living in a monarchy
>tfw based sovereign takes care of me

Not mad at all. God bless the King.

>>3633612
>red herring

>>3633637
>needs to be babied so wants everyone else to be babied as well

>>3633163
Honestly I know it's from a movie but that is basically what my worldview is. Despite all of it's badness the world is still worth fighting for.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

>>3633696
You're going to get babied no matter what. I'd rather have it done by a King than a representative democracy.

>republics
>voting
>majority rules
>tyranny of the plebeians
>murrica
>jury duty etc
>plebs have a say in convicting people based on their whims and prejudices

This is hell, I claim.

>>3633156
I think the fact that he was a war veteran makes this even more powerful

>>3634022
>war veteran
>uppity yank volunteer ambulance driver getting in the way of actual soldiers trying to get his machismo on in WW1
>later as a fat alcoholic takes a neutral position and then throws a single hand grenade in a house full of germans and thinks he's a warrior
>in between flirts with some anarchists
>later smoochies with a communist dictator and shoots tommy guns at fish drunkenly mumbling something about submarines

Veteran strong.

>>3632479
It's an amusing quip, not the meaning of life.

Be chill. Not only to yourself, but also to others.

Isn't it pretty to think like that?