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How do I stop being afraid of being sincere while I'm writing?
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>>24108824
It's interesting it took him a whole year to accept that he couldn't top Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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I'm going to read him now that I discovered he was a wife-beater.
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No one knows why he wears that on his head. How mysterious
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He sweat too much.
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write under a pseudonym
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if you're being sincerely gross and degenerate like DFW, then read Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel and kys
or read The Rules of Attraction, it's all the same garbage
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>>24108824
Share your writing with others and kill the ego
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maybe you're afraid because you don't want to see that what you thought was a well-developed aesthetics is no more than a base sentimentalism, which is what hides behind most irony-pilled writers

only when you write from and acknowledge this will you be able to be sincere & Good
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Still no answer on the head scarf thing huh?
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>>24110828
just some hippie stuff
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>>24110828
nervous sweater, wore the bandana so he wouldn't have to wipe sweat from his eyes
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>>24110851
That's YOUR impression. Not HIS reason. >>24110871
Doubt. Is there an interview where he says that?
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>>24111007
uh anon, why do you write like this?
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>>24111007
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>>24111007
From the New York Times review of the DT Max biography:
>Wallace started wearing the bandanna as the least embarrassing solution he could think of to obscure the intense sweating attacks that overcame him without warning. (In high school, he had taken to carrying around a tennis racket and a towel as a tacit cover story for the sweating.)
I just googled 'dfw bandana sweat' to find this. The Power of Research.
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>>24111010
Good question
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>>24108824
embrace cringe and sincerity. trying to avoid it obviously didn't work for him
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>>24108831
I saw you in the other thread, rat!
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>>24108824
Say what you mean.
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there’s nothing to fear except for fear itself, especially for a ‘writer’ devoted to their work imo.
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>>24108824
Just do it. Just do it!
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>>24108824
Can you please take a butcher knife and cut off your fingers so we never have to see your shitty schizo posts here again?
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>>24111651
Doesn't make it untrue.
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>>24111728
This is only true for non-whites
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>>24108824
get OLDER nigga
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>>24114467
This. Boomers have no shame.



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