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>Nietzsche was a failed composer
>Faulkner was a failed poet
>Hemingway was a failed soldier
>Fitzgerald was a failed novelist
>Nabokov was a failed intellectual

Who are some other writers who defaulted to writing after their original plans failed?

>> No.14420983

You try different things until you find one where you excel. It's the same with every profession.

>> No.14420993
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14420993

>me, a failed normie

>> No.14421001

>>14420983
This. Morrissey tried to be a writer before becoming a singer, and Rivers Cuomo wanted to be an athlete before becoming a musician, this is not exclusive for writers

>> No.14421015

>>14420975
>Nietzsche was a failed composer
And Wagner was a failed playwright (or was he? Considering that he wrote his own dramas...)

>> No.14421104

>>14421015
given the quality of his "dramas", yes

>> No.14421159

>>14421104
t. Jew

>> No.14421201 [DELETED] 
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>tfw I want to be good at everything I'm not
>I'm good at poetry but I don't understand it, I'm good at acting but have too much pride to make a career out of it, I'm a master rhetorician but no one listens except if it is part of something which I don't care for, attaining women is easy but I don't love them, I can write a fantastic play/screenplay but nothing that I would consider worth reading on its own, cinema is the easiest thing to make but it's the lowest of artforms, philosophy is a consolation but the creation of it would be barred from success, if I set complete intent to any practice I desired I would surely excel but my laziness compels me to multiple interests.
I want to compose but I don't know a single note... maybe I am a poet after all. A tragic one.

Is there truly nothing in this world for me but action? And even that is lacking, I can find no exterior thing to rival me.

>> No.14421208

>>14420975
>Fitzgerald was a failed novelist
LOLWUT.jpg. You may not like his books but there’s no denying he was a successful novelist.

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14421221

>Roger Scruton was a failed cringe

>> No.14421244

>>14421201
delusions of grandeur. you probably aren’t remotely as good at any of those pursuits as you think you are.

>> No.14421268

I am as a failed human

>> No.14421281

>>14421201
Calm down faggot

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>>14421001
>Comparing Rivers Cuomo to the greats of the western literaty canon.

>> No.14421301

>>14421201
I can tell you are good at being a teenager

>> No.14421305

>>14420975
/lit/anons, failed humans.

>> No.14421322

>>14421244
>>14421281
>>14421301
I said excel, not create some masterpiece that would one day be annunciated into the Western canon.. with others cheering my name "That's Phil's boy", it set painted onto every cathedral, the great men of the future admiring my deeds, depictions plastered against buildings alike and forever warm.

>> No.14421329

>>14421301
ahh you got me!

I'm a 30 year old man who does this for fun.

>> No.14421334

>>14421329
Why are you pretending to be me?

>> No.14421340

>>14421334
huh?

>> No.14421352

>>14421340
You replied to the anon that thought I was a teenager as me.

>> No.14421376

>>14421352
Mind your own business.

Who knows maybe this is my only joy in life, huh huh? Ya ever fucken thinkabout that smartass?! I'M FUCKING FADDUP WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU JUST RUINING EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE WITH NOO FUCKING CONSIDERATION!!!

Just mind your own fucking business next time.

>> No.14421394

>>14421376
oh, okay.

>> No.14421404

>>14421334
>>14421340
>>14421352
>>14421376
>>14421394
>/lit/

>> No.14421413

>>14421376
Well said anon, I am completely sorry for how I treated you.

ignore this troglodyte>>14421404

>> No.14421420

>>14421208
Not Gatsby Fitzgerald

>> No.14421423

You ever have that weird taste in your mouth like from childhood?

>> No.14421427

>>14421420
look at that smug bastard

>> No.14421434

>>14420975
>>Hemingway was a failed soldier


don't failed soldiers tend to be corpses in the short term?

>> No.14421436

>>14421413
Why are you pretending to be me?

>> No.14421440

>>14421404
look at that smug bastard'

>> No.14421444

>>14421436
Fuck off, anon!

>> No.14421447

>>14421301
Why yes, I am a teenager, how could you tell?

Ignore these impostors >>14421329
>>14421334

>> No.14421451

I prefer Hemingway to Plato.

>> No.14421457

>>14421440
>>14421444
OH COME ON, they were both you.

>> No.14421464

>>14421447
>teenager trying not to be teenager by Hemingway
Yea, as I expected.

>> No.14421469

>>14421447
TROLL!!

>> No.14421482

>>14420975
(you're) are a failed human aren't (you)

>> No.14421500

>Hitler was a failed artist

>> No.14421506

>>14420993
>that disgusting lens flare
i like most everything else about the pic but jeez

>>14420975
Stirner's milk shop failed before he developed his egoism ideas
Marx was a NEET who wrote and was supported by Engels

>> No.14421537

>>14421506
>Marx was a NEET who wrote and was supported by Engels
Mommy and neet sitting in a tree -MILKIES!MILKIES!- except one is gay...

Oh wait! THAT'S THE POINT OF THE RELATIONSHIP!!!

BAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.14421543

Free advertisement!

>> No.14421567

Sometimes constant shitposting for a man past a certain age can be a bad thing.

>> No.14421573

*and then the thread went quiet*

>> No.14421577

>>14421447
>hey look guys! I'm part of the joke.

>> No.14421580

>>14421287
This, no book gives me the feels like the Sweater Song does.

>> No.14421735

>>14420975
>hoffmann was a successful composer
>homer was the greatest poet
>tolkien was a good soldier
>king is an acclaimed novelist
>kant was a distinguished intellectual
read better authors

>> No.14422194

>>14421423
cum?

>> No.14422240

>>14420975
>Hitler was a failed painter

>> No.14422250

>>14421735
>King
>better

>> No.14422306

>>14421104
Absolutely Based

>> No.14422796

>>14420975
>failed intellectual

>> No.14422823

>>14420975
I would consider Nietzsche more of a philosopher than a writer. By a long shot.

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Wasn't he a failed stockbroker or some other kind of bourgeois meme job?

>>14422823

Cope. Nietzsche is a brilliant author.

>> No.14422869

Céline was a failed doctor
Wittgenstein was a failed aerospace engineer

>> No.14422881

>>14421735
What's a distinguished intellectual

>> No.14422889

>>14420975
Hitler was a failed painter

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>>14420975
Pynchie wanted to be a physicist and didn't get accepted to graduate math :(

>> No.14422909

>>14422889
Hitler was a failed person

>> No.14422947

>>14422909
hitler was the closest man to god to ever live.

>> No.14422954

>>14422947
Based

>> No.14422957

>>14422947
god is dead

>> No.14422973

>>14422957
serves him right for taking the führer away from us.

>> No.14422980

>>14422957

So is Hitler though...

>> No.14423004

>>14422980
have you ever seen God and Hitler in the same room?

>> No.14423014

>>14420975

>Hitler was a failed painter

Hey, you asked

>> No.14423030

>>14423014
He wasn't a writer, idiot.

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>>14420975
>tfw failed STEM
>tfw failed Uni
>tfw failed Socially
>tfw failed at being a normie
>tfw failed at painting and drawing
>tfw failed at animation and cartooning
>tfw failed at drawing comics
>tfw failed at music
>tfw failed at poetry
>tfw failed at journalism
>tfw failed at non-fiction writing
>tfw failed at writing short stories
>tfw failed at writing fiction
>tfw failed at fishing and kayaking
>tfw failed at running, biking and swimming
>tfw failed at ping pong, table tennis and pool
>tfw the only thing I didn’t fail at was failing at everything
What the fuck do I do? Any books for this feel?

>> No.14423075

>>14422881
someone whose ideas reverberate throughout the ages and end up shaping our minds

>> No.14423078

>>14423043
Be a suicide bomber

>> No.14423082

>>14423030
Mein Kampf would like to differ

>> No.14423083

>>14420975
Nietzsche wrote at extensively since childhood.

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>>14423082
That pile of shit is not even good you fucking faggot, not to mention he had his dog write it

>> No.14423114

>>14423075
Fuck i was sleepy and read it as indistinguished somehow

>> No.14423116

>>14423043
Are you me?

>> No.14423120

>>14423043
A lot of things you "failed" was just you not persisting long enough for your initial efforts to bear fruit.
When you start a new hobby or art form, set easy goals initially and incrementally add more goals until you attain decent skill at something.
It only takes effort and experience to reach average or above average status in anything you do because most people don't put in that much effort.

>> No.14423137

>>14423043

How exactly does one fail at kayaking?

>> No.14423157

>>14423043
How are ping pong and table tennis different?

>> No.14423161

>>14423137
quite easy to capsize in anywhere but a tranquil sea

>> No.14423189

>>14423137
I don't into kayaking but I can think of several ways: capsizing, running aground, hitting people with the paddle, not impressing the QT you went kayaking with.

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>>14420975
>As to what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in it. But that in my century I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colours.
tfw Goethe is a failed stemlord

>> No.14423619

>>14420975
Hitler

>> No.14423684

>>14423043
Henry Darger is the only one I can think of. Lived his entire life as a janitor and a recluse. His art was only found after he died.

>> No.14423696

>>14420975
Hunter S Thompson saw himself as a failed novelist who had to settle with being a journalist

>”The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”

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>>14422947
Nope.

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>>14423696
The man was based. Undoubtedly based.

>> No.14423810

>>14420975
there has never been a great man that didn't fail greatly

>> No.14424104

>>14423810
All men fail greatly, the notable people occasionally succeed. The plebs fail and go on failing until they die.