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“When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.”

War Country Facts Political Left Millions Struggle Written Ignorance Terrible Skins Ran Coward Countrymen Disloyalty

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.”

Thinking Has Beens I Can Body Hands Lines Sin Written Blood Feet Pride Skins Greed Flesh Lust Ran Pens Crowns Nails Autobiography Ink Purple Thorns Avarice Rags I Can Read Crown Of Thorns

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu has to say, I have to kind of impersonate Tu Fu. I have to take on, if you will, his voice and his skin in English, and I have to try to get as deeply into the poem as possible. I'm not trying to make an equivalent poem in English, which can't be done because our language can't accommodate the kind of metaphors within metaphors the Chinese written language can, and often does, contain.”

Ifs Trying Kind Doe Self Done Language Voice Written Figures Skins Metaphor Chinese Translations Accommodate Things I Love Written Language Impersonate

Author:Sam Hamill

“Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started: Dear Diary, I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple.”

Feels Writing Trying Persons Morning Alive Written Example Exercise Skins Dear Jealous Diaries Admiring Supple Old Person Elasticity

Author:Joe Dunthorne

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”

Love Inspirational Pain Difficult Memories Written Skins Painful Permanent Damage Scar Faded

Book:Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.”

Parent Water Written Letters Skins Tables Kitchen Cried Kitchen Table

Book:Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.”

Heart Stories Written Skins Tattoo

Author:Charles de Lint

“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

“The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not "I'm having a bad day and feel bitchy" nuts or PMS nuts. "I think I'll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend" nuts.”

Source: Undead and Unreturnable: A Queen Betsy Novel

“As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.”

Soul Stories Body Would Be Written Wind Becoming Paper Pages Skins Hot Surface Dry Fables Crawling Papyrus

Author:Salman Rushdie