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1468253 No.1468253 [Reply] [Original]

So, /lit/, who inspires you?

Who have you read that you derived inspiration from, who has driven you to live your life?

>> No.1468255

Nelson Mandela!

>> No.1468258

I drive myself to live my life. If you live your life for any other reason then yourself, you are not really living.

But... authors that helped me get to that point...

Ram Dass
Carl Sagan
Thoreau

>> No.1468260

Bukowski. He's one of many reasons why I'm not a junkie or a drunk any more.

>> No.1468265

>>1468258
The topic is more like, who has inspired you to live for yourself, as opposed to living your life for anything else, obviously.

>> No.1468273

>>1468260
If I want to read and appreciate his work, where should I start?

>> No.1468278

>>1468255
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K04rSfSAZR8

>> No.1468280

>>1468258
Looks like Ayn Rand was the one who inspired you most

>> No.1468292

>>1468273
Post Office or Ham on Rye.

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William Golding
Henry David Thoreau
Homer
Kenji Kamiyama
and J.R.R. Tolkien

>> No.1468552

Bump

>> No.1468575

Vasily Grossman the most, I think.

>> No.1468651

Superman

>> No.1468664

Louis Aragon, Curzio Malaparte, Dostoevsky, Jonathan Littell, André Malraux, Camus, Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian, Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel.

>> No.1468681

>>1468280

Haven't read her stuff. In all honesty is was most likely ayahuasca and backpacking around with amazing people who influenced and changed the direction of my life.

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Bruce Campbell because Evil Dead and that amazing fucking chin.

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After reading 'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf I was inspired to move out to a small town in the middle of nowhere and live in a secluded area, in my own little room, undisturbed and able to focus on my writing and thoughts. It has worked out well thus far, and my writing is improving.

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NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende.

Atreyu is awesome. It peeves me big time that a lame metalcore band has the privilege of bearing his name.