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Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:06:51 2018 No.11931413 [Reply] [Original]

Do I need a flashy Ivy League degree to become a great writer?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:07:35 2018 No.11931415 >>11931413 No

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:08:50 2018 No.11931418 >>11931413 Yes

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:11:32 2018 No.11931433 >>11931413 Maybe

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:15:02 2018 No.11931453 >>11931413 pretty much any one who subscribes to pomo, existentialism, idealism (especially german), and such continental drivel is a sophist.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:17:17 2018 No.11931467 >>11931413 I don't know

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:23:58 2018 No.11931501 >>11931413 No, you need bags of talent, ambition and a great work ethic to realise it, skill at networking and self-promotion, and lots of luck.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:28:15 2018 No.11931521 The best Portuguese novelist of last century didn't finish school I think he never even went to high school

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:29:43 2018 No.11931528 >>11931453 Are you just spamming this in every thread?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 12:30:46 2018 No.11931541 Faulkner was a high school dropout

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 15:21:13 2018 No.11932401 >>11931413 It wouldn't hurt, the value of ivies is that they are unrivaled for networking. >t. proud fool who spoiled his shot at sycophantics at a fancy college.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 15:48:16 2018 No.11932520 >>11931413 No, but getting to know some fancy prep kids who went to Ivy Leagues would be very good for you as far as connections go.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 15:48:56 2018 No.11932526 >>11931541 maybe that's why he was garabge

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 17:56:33 2018 No.11933155 >>11932526 respect the dead, soon you'll be dead too

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 17:58:25 2018 No.11933163 >>11931413 Learn something that makes you worthwhile to read. Ivy League won't help you if you won't do this, and you can do this wherever.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 18:00:06 2018 No.11933172 File: 7 KB, 196x250, 53f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11933155 Promise?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 14 18:14:14 2018 No.11933265 Prestige helps sell itself sometimes so yeah a degree from a top university can help every once in a while, especially when it comes to opening doors.