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7490135 No.7490135 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a single good writer that wasn't at least moderately attractive in their youth?

>> No.7490158

me

>> No.7490160
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7490160

>> No.7490212

>>7490160
who is that though?

>> No.7490214

>>7490212
>not knowing Balzac

>> No.7490225

>>7490158
that's what I was going to say, but then I saw the 'good'

>> No.7490226

>>7490214
I know but is that really Balzac?

>> No.7491069

>>7490212
victor serge?

>> No.7491100

>>7490160
Balzac? More like Ballsack heheh.

>> No.7491112

>>7490135
What did Rowling and Woolf look like as lassies? I remember F O'Connor not being too bad.

>> No.7491120
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>>7491112
O'Connor

>> No.7491124

Woolf is one of the best writers of the 20th century but she looks like a goddamn wolf

>> No.7491133
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>>7491112
J Row

>> No.7491139

>>7491112
>>7491124
Woolf

>> No.7491142
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7491142

>>7491139

>> No.7491159
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7491159

>not having the image of this guy's ugly mug burned in your mind
newfags.

>> No.7491171

>>7491159
What are you talking about mate? Pynchon is one of the handsomest writers of all time!

>> No.7491267

>>7491159
His teeth are a massacre.

>> No.7491282

>>7490135
Sartre

>> No.7491308
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>>7491142

She looks pretty sultry in that pic but you never know.

>> No.7491506
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>>7491120
stfu flan flan is precious

>> No.7493433

>>7491120
>Implying I wouldn't spill my prose all over her plot

>> No.7493622
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7493622

hardly "good", but

>> No.7493627
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>>7491282
he's not bad, if you just....

>> No.7493645

>>7493627
Not bad? He'd be an 8.5 at this point if not the eyes.

>> No.7493655

>>7490135
Yes, most of them.

I often see this meme that smart people are usually very good looking. You're living in a fantasy world.

>> No.7493663

>>7493645
He was 5 feet tall.

>> No.7493667

>>7493627
Elliot Rodger-esque

>> No.7493675

>>7493663
was talking face m8.
>tfw he banged that Bevoir despite being a manlet

>> No.7493687

>>7493622
Neither good nor attractive.

>> No.7493688

>>7493675
Beauvoir was a hag and they were in a French open relationship regardless. He was probably getting cucked by 'black' (Algerian) bulls.

>> No.7493692

>>7493687
that's exactly what I said, shitcunt

>> No.7494037
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>>7493688

>> No.7494070
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7494070

george eliot

>> No.7494075

>>7491159
He really is the Bugs Bunny of literature.

>> No.7494079
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7494079

Albert Camus

>> No.7494081
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7494081

Was going to say Borges, then I found this

>> No.7494084

>>7493688
more like he was cucking her and taking that black pipe so deep it gave him indigestion.

>> No.7494085
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7494085

Obviously Kafka

>> No.7494116

>>7494085
looks fine imho

>> No.7494122

>>7494070

Kylo Ren?

>> No.7494132

>>7494122
literally who

>> No.7494138

>>7494116

He was like 6' and 100 lbs.

>> No.7494139
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>> No.7494153

>>7494138
well, can't really take that from pictures, guess that's where he took his inspiration for the Hunger Artist
face wise he was somewhat attractive, that's all I'm saying

>> No.7494155
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7494155

No wonder he's such a robot.

>> No.7494166

>>7494116
he looks like a rat

or a bug? mhmhmmmm

>> No.7494173

>>7490135
balzac
baudelaire

>> No.7494196

>>7494122
Fucking kek

>> No.7494213
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7494213

Alpha as fuck

>> No.7494224
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7494224

TS Eliot

Not very good looking

>> No.7494231

>>7494213
That jawline and chin.... Mother of God....

>> No.7494242

>>7494132
Star trek villan.

>> No.7494247
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>> No.7494320

>>7494081
>those are some poor cheeks and lips. That overexposure is likely hiding his worse features.

>> No.7494336

>>7494224
he's pretty qt tho, with a slightly slimer jaw he would look like some qt no wave girl.

>> No.7494438

>>7494122
Underrated

>> No.7494480
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>>7494247
Kerouac was model-tier.
>no Hemingway

>> No.7494724

>>7491159
oldschool smartass look t b h

>> No.7494787

>>7494224
Pretty qt tho

>> No.7496008
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>> No.7496031

>>7494247
tfw the only good looking writers are also ... p mediocre.

Why are attractive people never good at art (or STEM, for that matter)?

>> No.7496439

>>7490212
llewyn davis

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>>7496031
>Only good looking writers are mediocre
Gr8 b8

>> No.7496466

>>7496450
proust wasn't good looking nor above-mediocre though, at least not if you compare him to the other big players of his era

>> No.7496467

>>7493627
Why is there a hole in this picture?

>> No.7496515

>>7494085
looks like zayn malik

>> No.7496520

i'm surprised my nig rimbaud wasn't posted yet

>> No.7497957

>>7491133
>good

>> No.7497984

>>7496467
Sartre has the worst lazy eye of all time

>> No.7497987
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>>7496466
>Proust wasn't good looking
>nor above mediocre

>> No.7498271

>>7496520
Jailbait

>> No.7498371

>>7493622
> smiling

>> No.7498608

>>7496031
ia. /lit/ has horrible taste in physical aesthetics. though i enjoy kerouac and hedlund was a hot enough actor to portray him dat ass

>> No.7499295
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>>7493627
>>7496467
>>7497984
>>7493645

>> No.7499580
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>> No.7499604

>>7494079
Nah Camoose was a hunk

>> No.7499612

>>7497987
Read the rest of my post. Compared to Joyce, he was both 6/10 looking and a 7/10 writer.

Ok, maybe back in day the french digged moustaches way more, but... Come on.

>> No.7499649

>>7491159
OP said good writers

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>> No.7499653

>>7494139
He kind of looks like that mildly retarded guy in all that russian porn

>> No.7499668
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7499668

>tfw the man who kickstarted the meme trilogy is sexy as fuck
Would fart on/10

>> No.7499710
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7499710

>no one posted Nietzsche

>> No.7499714

faulkner was a manlet

>> No.7499755

>>7499710
rofl literally looks like a modern day aspie. someone shop a fedora on him.

>> No.7499756

you OP

>> No.7500649

>>7496466
proust was a qt shut your fucking mouth

>> No.7500660

>>7499710
looks like a school shooter

>> No.7501257

>>7499710
he looks like evan peters

>> No.7501379

>>7493622
I'd bang rand. She's ugly but in a way I find hot.

>>7499710
He looks pretty dope with that premium real-estate beneath his nose though.

>> No.7501393

>>7499668
Would fit right in nowadays with his own hipster tumblr

>> No.7503093

>>7499653
kek

>> No.7503095
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7503095

inbred as fugg

>> No.7503145
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Not a 'writer' per say, but...

>> No.7503178

>>7491142
Wittgenstein in a wig

>> No.7503181

>>7491159
His mouth looks like a vandalised grave yard.

>> No.7504862

>>7503145
How faithful are those busts anyway?

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>>7491159
"benis"