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6688925 No.6688925 [Reply] [Original]

How do I git gud at making profound quotes and sayings, /lit/?

>> No.6688930

>>6688925
get smart

>> No.6688950

>>6688925
You don't set out to make quotes, you just say and/or write shit until someone else latches onto a particularly profound sentence.

>> No.6688971

>>6688925
"A room without books is like a body without a soul. An atheist's wet dream." - William Lane Craig, PhD.

>> No.6688982

The more you learn; The more you earn
-Warren Buffet

>> No.6688985

Get an apprenticeship with a professional quote maker.

>> No.6688987

>>6688925
"My ass-gas redefines flatulence."

--Me

>> No.6689697

>>6688925
There were no books in Cicero's time.

>> No.6689705

book collecting in 30AD? woah

>> No.6689722

Books without room is like a soul without a body.

im genius nigga!!!

>> No.6689732

>>6689697
*In Cicero's time, the word referred to single scrolls.
ftfy

>> No.6689734

a room without body is like a soul without books

>> No.6689747

>>6688925
Your picture serves to prove that the quotes themselves don't actually have to be remotely pithy or profound, you just have to attribute them to a household-name intellectual.
-Albert Einstein

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6689750

>>6688925
Get famous or somethin.

>> No.6690088

>>6688925
just synthesize two completely random different objects into a similie

>> No.6690738

Study the history of sophistry

>> No.6690752
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6690752

"I was never the sort of child who believed in “monsters under the bed” or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father…once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called “antiparanoia,” in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it."

>> No.6690772

A) Don't be a stupid cunt
B) Don't be uncomfortable with making short infantile wordplay generalizations which don't help anyone but get you mad pusi

>> No.6690774

>>6690752
John Green reminds me of the weird home schooled kid who sat alone at the allergy table and wore capes at like age 15. I hope he gets hit by a bus

>> No.6690775

>>6688971

Shit, Craig serving some mad banter.