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20 Awesome Literary Tattoos

From Shakespeare to Vonnegut, these tattoos are classic to the bone.

  • 1. Kurt Vonnegut - "Breakfast Of Champions"

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  • 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald - "The Great Gatsby"

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  • 3. Shel Silverstein - "The Giving Tree"

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  • 4. Ayn Rand - "Atlas Shrugged"

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  • 5. Thomas Pynchon - "V."

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  • 6. Anais Nin

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  • 7. Bukowski - "Bluebird"

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  • 8. Samuel Beckett - "The Unnamable"

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  • 9. Augusten Burroughs - "Magical Thinking"

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  • 10. Kafka

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  • 11. Jack Kerouac - "On The Road"

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  • 12. Sharon Olds - "I Go Back To May 1937"

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  • 13. Kurt Vonnegut - "Slaughterhouse Five"

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  • 14. Allen Ginsberg - "America"

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  • 15. Shakespeare - "King Lear"

  • 16. Mark Z Danielewski - "House of Leaves"

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  • 17. Ray Bradbury - "Fahrenheit 451"

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  • 18. J. D. Salinger- "The Catcher In The Rye"

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  • 19. Virginia Woolf- "The Waves"

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  • 20. William Faulkner - "The Sound And The Fury"

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