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“A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.”

Democracy Crime Birth India Mark Election Criminals

Author:Narendra Modi

“My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old.”

Years Friendship Birth My Friends Mark Eight Procrastinator

Author:Steven Wright

“Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.”

Ifs World Might Wish Birth Ideals Mark Flaws Admiration Observers Masculine Loveliness Semblance

Book:The Birthmark (Unabridged): A Dark Romantic Story on Obsession with Human Perfection From the Renowned American Author of

Source: The Birthmark (Unabridged): A Dark Romantic Story on Obsession with Human Perfection From the Renowned American Author of

“One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.”

Littles Self Body Given Consciousness Birth Mark Imperfection Self Consciousness Things I Love Stretch Marks

Author:Nan Goldin

“The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.”

Men World Giving Beautiful Faces Suffering Girl Dark Grace Dog Birth Mark Ugly Legs Teeth Painter Mess Wheelchairs

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.”

Children Order Birth Decided Mark Blue Imperatives Barbaric Question Mark

Book:The Raven Boys

Source: The Raven Boys

“Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.”

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Author:Edith Wharton