216 Quotes About Skin




  • Author Howard Zinn
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    A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: "The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.

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  • Author Nathaniel Mackey
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    We became a tribe recalling the foundingtwo. Ducked in thru a door, we ate foodfrom Reunion, island in an ocean some-where, we forgot which, ducked in, not atraceof them there. . . We clutched bodies, rubbedeach other's limbs, less in love with skin thanthe memory of skin, skin's image, all themoreextolling skin. . . Sexed insinuance, nixedinsistence in retreat. . . Would-be what-if,whatif. . . We wanted it back, big promise, portent,apocalypse,urgency, plummet,plunge

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  • Author Marcel Proust
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    Like a rare species of shrub in a tub, near the carriages, in front of the porch where I was waiting, stood a young page who amazed the eye as much by the remarkable harmonies of his coloured hair as by his plant-like skin.

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