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7844092 No.7844092 [Reply] [Original]

"Write drunk, Edit sober"

What are your favorite go to inspiration quotes /lit/?

>> No.7844097

"When the red rivers following, take the brown road home"

>> No.7844105

"The first draft of anything is shit, unless you're a woman then all the other drafts are shit too"

>> No.7844108

>>7844092
get rich or die tryin'

also, OP is a total faggot

>> No.7844109

>>7844105
ouch. I wonder which misogynist said that

>> No.7844112

>>7844109
Sylvia Plath

>> No.7844115

>>7844108
Live forever or dye trying.

Also you are mistaken, I am a heterosexual

>> No.7844116

>>7844092
all artists are charlatans, but some charlatans are more convincing than artists.

>> No.7844124

>>7844112
What a twist!

>> No.7844930

>>7844092
>inspiration quotes
you need quotes to inspire to drink and then write down your banal cretinous thoughts?

what an interesting existence...

>> No.7844994

>>7844930
and you aren't inspired by the written word?

>> No.7845002

>>7844092

i hate when anyone quotes something related to drink in this manner, it's just annoying really. there's nothing special about it.

>> No.7845005

"you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - lee harvey oswald

>> No.7845024

>>7845005
too soon

>> No.7845035

>>7845002
same, it's just DUDE BEER LMAO

>> No.7845061

>>7845002
>nothing special about the main substance that altered human thought through all of history

>> No.7845099
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7845099

>>7845005

>> No.7845110

Wardine be cry.

>> No.7845124
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7845124

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

>> No.7845133

>>7845124
love you twiggs. Is that supposed to be Nietzsche?

>> No.7845134

"Have homosex drunk, crossdress sober."
t. Ernest Hemmingway

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7845155

>>7845133
Love you too. It's Emily Dickinson.

>> No.7845256

>>7845061

well when you put it that way :^)

ye mate hemingway was an impressive writer and that had nothing to do with his consumption, this is probably a throwaway quote of his.

>> No.7845264

>>7845256
its like his most famous quote

>> No.7845271

>>7845099
great gif

>> No.7845285

>>7845264
Google it. Multiple sources (including an interview with his daughter) say that the quote is misattributed. It's pretty shitty advice anyway, seeing as how alcohol is so distracting, but i guess it works for some people.

>> No.7845299

"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are"

>> No.7845306

look at that fat potbelly fuck, i bet his liver is fucking bulging out and causing internal discomfort, and he hasn't had an erection in 2 years

>> No.7845386

>>7844097
I used this for my senior quote, and it some how got past the editor.

>> No.7846196

>>7845061
Psilocybin?

>> No.7846199

think drunk, take notes, revisit sober

>> No.7847371

>>7846196
alchy you fuckwaffer