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“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?”

“One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.”

Years Color Hundred Years Ago Skins Remains Slave Bondage

Book:A Time for Action

Source: A Time for Action

“How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)”

Soul Beautiful Perfect Higher Hundred Decided Skins Unions Genes Solitary Unfair Chasing Higher Power

Book:Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel

Source: Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel

“A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.”

Body Doors Car Hundred Skins Concrete Wet Yards Mike Corpses Newton Sidewalk Midnight Sun

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.”

Way Whole Water Percent Hundred Skins Surface Tiny Mud Ponds Iceberg Tip Of The Iceberg

Author:Siobhan Dowd

“It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!”

Years Humans Book Written Hundred Skins Bounds Ancient Witch

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.”

Source: The Lost World

“But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.”

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“I told them that when you were born, God was so delighted that He sent a hundred angels to kiss you while you were in your mother's arms. Every place where the angels kissed you, they left a tiny dot. That way, if you ever forget how greatly you are loved by God, all you have to do is look at your skin, and you will remember.”

Ifs Way Looks Remember Mother Left Born Forget Arms Kissing Hundred Angel Skins Tiny Delighted Dots

Author:Robin Jones Gunn

“Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?”

Knows Years Mean Long Doe Stories Home Mother Heaven Wish Chance Alive Youth Hundred Skins Do You Know Buried Palestinian Palestine Crushed Salem Toothless Bulldozers

Author:Susan Abulhawa

“Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.”

Ifs Men World Years Has Beens Done Age Science Universe Millions Share Evolution Hundred Built Skins Paint Proof Perceive Towers Summit Pinnacle Eiffel Tower Knobs Eiffel

Book:Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

“My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.”

Believe Persons Form Belief Justice Color Judging Diversity Racism Percent Hundred Skins Social Justice Deeds Segregation Against Racism

Author:Malcolm X

“In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent's skin. If you don't understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time.”

Ifs Order Winning Loses Achieve Victory Percent Hundred Skins Opponents Fifty Judo

Author:Tsutomu Ohshima