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If you could be friends with any writer, who would it be?


"Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think."
--Alexander Pope

I find myself agreeing with just about everything this bastard wrote.

>> No.2350871

That's the worst quote I've ever read and I'm angry to have read it.

>> No.2350875

>>2350871
Pope and I are laughing at you.

>> No.2350877

i would hate to be friends with writers
bunch of pretentious bastards

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>>2350857

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>>2350857
>>2350857

What I love (loathe) best about this post is the implication OP is above such petty things as "amusement" and exists on a higher plane with his bro Alex.

>> No.2350892

sylvia plath, dammmn girl

>> No.2350895
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this guy, cuz he'd buy me drugs and take me home with im.

>> No.2350898

Karl Pilkington

>> No.2350900

>>2350889
This thread is full of all kinds of butthurt.

Rage on, pseudo-intellectuals. Rage, rage, against the telling of the truth.

>> No.2350903

>>2350900

not-so-subtle reference to a poem AND dubs. you win.

>> No.2350921

Adrienne Rich, because of reasons.

>> No.2350926

>>2350895
Who would want to fuck BEE, except some other, fat gay? Are you a fat gay?

>> No.2350930

Elitists, elitists everywhere.
Just start your own enlightened nation somewhere.
Then the people of the real world can get some work done.

>> No.2350939

>>2350900
>you're a pseudointellectual for pointing out that not finding things funny doesn't make you smart

okay guy

i think we know who's really in the throes of unreasoning rage here.

>> No.2350938

>>2350875
If you are laughing, then you are amused. If you are amused, then you cannot think.

>> No.2350936

>>2350930
The grand jest of it all is that you think what you and others like you are doing is "work." And you're wrong.

>> No.2350941

Maybe that's why reading Pope's poetry is just not in the least bit amusing.

>> No.2350942

>>2350938
Thatsthejoke.jpg

>> No.2350952

Joyce or Hemingway just to pal around and go out drinking.

Maybe Wilde for some flamboyant adventures.


Also Pope sounds like a faggot.

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>>2350942
fuck

>> No.2350969

>>2350952
But, Pope is better than you are.

>> No.2351156

F. Scott Fitzgerald, we could drink enough gin to sedate a wooly mammoth and entertain one another with slash-fiction of other '20s Parisian ex-pats

(HemingwayxGertrudeStein, ewww)

>> No.2351224

Leonardo Da Vinci, just because he is arguably the most brilliant individual to have ever lived.

You: Hurrrrrr Durrrrr he isn't a writer.
Me: The Manuscript in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence beg to differ.

Also, suck my dick.

>> No.2351248

typical autist

>> No.2351251

J K Rowling
Stephanie Myer
L J Smith

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atm C.S. Lewis. i would love to talk to him about language and religion. though i think he'd go well over my head most of the time, maybe he could point me to all those references he makes and ide actually learn most of them.

>> No.2351426

>>2351224

It would be pretty cool, seeing him create all his inventions etc. Not to mention all the gay sex we'd have...

>> No.2351509

Roald Dahl. He was british spy champion boxer, decent writer and king of the universe.

>> No.2351512
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Schopenhauer. We could get together over coffee and talk about how Hegel is full of shit.

>> No.2351588
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Camus. He just seems like a bro.

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I was thinking J.R.R. Tolkien or maybe Madeleine L'Engle, but
>>2351509
<<

>> No.2351826

George Orwell would have some pretty cool stories. He fought fascists and communists and got shot in the throat. He's like Hemingway, but in real life.

>> No.2351829

Kerouac. Just because he could score me some decent drugs.

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Barbara Cartland.

>> No.2351857
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Sartre.
Obviously the most friendliest of all writers/philosophers.

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my waifu, patricia highsmith. no doubt it would end up in crushing disappointment when she inevitably rebuffs by awkward, abortive advances, but at least i would be able to treasure the good times with her for the rest of my life.

>> No.2351896

Palahniuk. He could teach me how to write.

>> No.2351897

>>2351880
wow. you get friendzoned even in your fantasies?
probably rumi

>> No.2351902

Diogenes of Sinope

Just because his writings didn't survive doesn't mean he isn't a writer

>> No.2351907

Emp. Marcus Aurelius.

Continued the ethical brilliance of the stoics.

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I want to delve into the dark depths of human trafficking and exploitation in Eastern Europe or South East Asia with my nigga Marquis de Sade

>> No.2351927

What do you recommend of hers?

>> No.2351930

>>2351927
A partridge in a pear tree.

>> No.2351931

>>2351927
meant for
>>2351880

Apologies.

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Hitler

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>>2351512

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>drink all the fucking time

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Hunter S Thompson.

"Hey Hunter, what are we doing today?"

"I have noooo fuckin' idea, man."

Adventure!

>> No.2352847

>>2351857
totally would drink espresso with that guy, true brp

my choice would be... Chuck Klosterman! armchair philosophy over a case of cheap beer and a saved by the bell marathon oh yeah!

>> No.2352895

Orwell or Dostoyevsky.

Both seem like bros.

>> No.2352920

>>2352895
>degenerate gambler
>commie

>> No.2352936

>>2352920
>important writers

>> No.2352969

If you don't say Ernest Hemingway, you're obviously a pussy and a faggot.

>> No.2353085

I would hang out with Oscar Wilde in an opium den and fuck boys. Then we would go shopping for fancy jackets. It would be a union forged by the gods.

>> No.2353101

Isaac Asimov
He might be a bit academic, but damn would he be a chill guy to be around.

>> No.2353107

OP's quote is dumb and pathetic and he was probably a gross emo/socially retarded kid in middle and high school.

Tao Lin, obviously

>> No.2353113

Vonnegut, Hemingway, Kerouac, or Fitzgerald

>> No.2353121

Definitely Vonnegut.

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