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• Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

  Unknown

  Fish Tanks, Red, Fishes

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• The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Promise, Tears

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• I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

  Janet Suzman

  Real, Character, Blood

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• The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

  John Buchan

  Years, Shining, Robes

  John Buchan (1912). “The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies”

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• The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

  Christopher Plummer

  Sweet, Father, Talking

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• Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Writing, Mind, Creeps

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

  Johann Arndt

  Men, Yield, Giving

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Artist, Our Generation

  "Why Kanye West really is the world's No 1 rock star" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Taken, Years, Clothes

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Assessment, Littles, Reason

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.2, no.2 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

  George Takei

  Country, Father, Blood

  "CJAD" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. November 21, 1994.

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• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Jobs, Acting, Way

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• The urge to kill, like the urge to beget,
  Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set
  Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can
  Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Men, Today, Way

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• Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Too Much, States

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• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

  Paul Valery

  Truth, Years, Long

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• As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Doe, Want

  Lucian Freud, Richard Calvocoressi, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (1997). “Lucian Freud: early works : Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art”

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• You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

  Pat Benatar

  Love You, Pay, Bones

  Song: Hell is for Children, Album: Best Shots

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• Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

  Lynn Johnston

  Fall, Taken, Long

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• I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Men, Compassion

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• Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

  Thomas Hood

  Struggle, Blood, Bread

  'The Song of the Shirt' (1843)

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• The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pain, Heart, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.127, Macmillan

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• O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Garden, Two

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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• Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

  Pablo Neruda

  Laughter, Sleep, Being In Love

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• Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Success, Character, Curiosity

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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