583 Quotes About Skins


  • Author Alberto Manguel
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    In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.

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  • Author Alice Munro
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    The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

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  • Author Arizona Muse
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    I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

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  • Author Bibhu Mohapatra
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    My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.

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  • Author Cillian Murphy
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    I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon or a sense of courage that you would never have in your own life.

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  • Author Claire Messud
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    It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

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