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The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world:
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the-lost-symbol
dan-brown
tattoo
flesh
control
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Dan Brown |
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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sex
carnal-embrace
carnal-knowledge
coitus
intercourse
meat
flesh
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Tom Stoppard |
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She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good.
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woman
curvy
scrawny
flesh
lord
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Jim Thompson |
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Dragons are fire made flesh.
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flesh
fire
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George R.R. Martin |
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Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
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depravity
flesh
hypocrisy
selfishness
pride
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
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flesh
pride
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George Eliot |
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-just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.
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wisdom
mature
older
brain
bones
maturity
flesh
mountains
teens
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V.C. Andrews |
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(A revolver is) just a tool, really, like stapler. A stapler that punch through a person. Pin them. Drive blunt metal through flesh and bone.
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pin
punch
revolver
stapler
tool
flesh
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Mohsin Hamid |
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MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub! AMBASSADOR: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh. MINISTER: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow. AMBASSADOR: And what a beautiful definition of flesh! You know I am only substantial shadow, Minister, but if you cut me, I bleed. Touch me, I palpitate!
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flesh
shadow
desire
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Angela Carter |
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There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh.
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flesh
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George R.R. Martin |